I ALWAYS say that the death of a president is an inevitable time to compare them with the others. I saw this during the death of the very popular Corazon Aquino in 2009 and just recently with the death of the hard-working Fidel V. Ramos.

But nowhere was this more evident than 23 years ago on Sept. 28, 1989, when one president learned about the death of another as she prepared to go to another one's celebration.

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