J. ALBERT GAMBOA
For the record, President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s two-hour State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 24 was the second longest in Philippine history. Former President Benigno Aquino 3rd delivered a longer SONA in 2015 that clocked in at 2 hours and 15 minutes. In terms of word count, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos delivered the lengthiest SONA ever, with 29,335 words.