FERDINAND Marcos Sr. started as a Kennedy-like candidate in 1965 — young, good-looking, war hero and highly intelligent, with a beautiful wife, Imelda, and very young and adoring children Imee, Irene and Bongbong, a true picture of Camelot. His leadership looked promising. He inherited an exchange rate of about P3.
9 to a dollar and a foreign debt of only $600 million. We had an active two-party system, with the Nacionalista Party, to which the president belonged, and the opposition, the Liberal Party; our media was dubbed the freest press in Asia. His first term was remarkable for its infrastructure projects and the building of a lot of classrooms. He also launched the Green Revolution to emphasize agricultural security by producing our own food.
He believed the president was turning the Philippines into 'a garrison state in the make.'Despite the promise of making the nation great again, inequality and poverty continued. By the late 1960s, as part of a worldwide movement of young people calling for change in the spirit of the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and the women's liberation movement , activism pervaded the young intellectuals in the schools.
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