Marcos maneuver: His peace offer to the Lopezes – in May 1972. (From Raul Rodrigo, 2007)
“‘Then Macapagal came; but in two years the Lopezes were able to bring about a crisis of major proportions against him, and so bring on his downfall. And it was the Lopezes who engineered the coup of Marcos. Very few people know this, but it was the Lopezes who financed Marcos against Senate President Amang Rodriguez to win the support of the Senate. All right, they rode with Marcos. First term. Now they are abandoning Marcos. The giant killers are again true to form.’