No Philippine president looms large as a revered figure in the national memory. This is probably the reason we have no Mt. Rushmore, no memorial for a president on a grand, towering scale. The satraps of Mr. Marcos tried to carve a false tribute on a very public part of a mountainside up North. But like the felled statues of Stalin, the faux tribute to our homegrown despot was demolished by the wrath of history.

But this is not saying that we have had no presidents of real consequence.

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