RENE SAGUISAG

I HAD thought that JPE’s 2012 Juan Ponce Enrile: A Memoir was his definitive biography. But his interviews with the Daily Tribune over the past few days have supplemented, embroidered or revised his book. To me, these punctuate the Durants’ apothegm that “all autobiography is vanity.” JPE, or Manong Johnny, now changes his account and says his 1986 target was not Ferdinand “Macoy” Marcos, but some “junta,” which I don’t recall reading in his 753-page memoir. I have not the time and energy to read the thick volume again and confined myself to the index, where junta appears at page 609 (used by Macoy). Why JPE did not tell his editor, the late Nelson Navarro, he may yet explain in February 2021, well into his second adolescence, at 97. Enviable kamandag pa kuno (venom, they say) — for another possible revision.

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