THE history of Malacañan Palace goes down all the way to 1750 when it was first constructed as a casita (country house) by a Spanish aristocrat, Don Antonio Rocha, and so, there is need to clarify that for purposes of the current discussion, "Malacañang" must only situate in that period beginning with the establishment of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1935 up to the present.
Therefore, in tracing the pattern traversed by Philippine presidents in their journey to the Palace, we confine ourselves to the terms of President Manuel L. Quezon onward.
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