THE speech President Benigno S. Cojuangco Aquino gave at the Rizal Room, in Malacañang, on Independence Day was a pretty good one.

The first part is a touching narration of how his father’s career, potentially as a great Filipino President, was demolished by assassins, how the family, including the boy who became our President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, suffered the ordeals of martial law, and then how his mother and, later, he became our Presidents.

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