The newly installed President Corazon Aquino gives her first press conference.
President Corazon Aquino gives her first press conference. “We are so proud to be Filipino precisely because millions of Filipinos risked their lives only to regain our rights and freedoms,” she said. “All the world saw and recorded people who knelt in the path of oncoming tanks… All the world wondered as they witnessed, in the space of two months, a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.”