Lessons in public speaking from Claro M. Recto, Carlos P. Romulo, and Rodrigo Duterte

[caption id="attachment_238934" align="alignleft" width="130"] RACHEL A.G. REYES[/caption]

No one can accuse Carlos P. Romulo, the journalist-soldier turned statesman, of not taking public speaking seriously. His speeches, written in the distant pre-computer past, are laboriously typed on onion-skin paper, corrected by hand, and revised several times before delivery. Evidently, he was a firm believer in tightly scripted public speaking.