The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos to the United States. In January, 1970, when there was widespread indignation over Marcos' having suddenly become the "richest man in Asia," Marcos called in the Malacanang reporters for a news briefing at the ninth hole of the Malacanang golf course. He complained that he was being unduly pilloried by the mass media and the opposition party for his alleged ill-gotten wealth. "I will admit that I am rich. But, you know boys, how I made my pile? I discovered the treasure of Yamashita," Marcos declared. It was widely reputed in the Philippines that Yamashita, the last commander of the Japanese Imperial forces in the Philippines, buried a lot of treasures which he had looted from Burma, Malaya and Singapore before he surrendered to American forces. If it is true, then Marcos has committed and continues to commit a violation of law. He has not shared half of the hidden treasure he had discovered with the Philippine government as provided by law.
Chapter X The loves of Marcos "Sabihin mo sa sir mo, at nasabi ko na rin sa kaniya ito. Kapag hindi siya tumigil ng pagloloko, gagawan ko siya ng eskandalo na maluluma si Profumo. "(Tell your sir (i.e. President Marcos], and I have myself told him about this. If he does not stop his philandering, I will expose a scandal about him that would dwarf the Profumo case.) British Defense Minister John Profumo was forced to resign from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan when he was denounced for having allegedly consorted with a prostitute, Christine Keeler. This brought down the government of MacMillan.*1 (*1. British Defense Minister John Profumo was forced to resign from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan when he was denounced for having consorted with a prostitute, Christine Keeler. This brought down the government of MacMillan.)
The party giving the warning was none other than the First Lady, Mrs. Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, who was so distraught one day that she found Teodoro F. Valencia, pro-Marcos newspaperman willing to listen to her sympathetically. At the time, Mrs. Marcos felt like a woman scorned. She had good reasons to be. She had discovered not by herself, but by the admission of the "other woman," that her husband had acquired a mistress who, according to the woman, was promised by the President the prospect of being a future First Lady in lieu of Imelda Romualdez who was becoming fat and obese, and an old wag. The other woman turned out to be Dovie Beams, an upcoming star from Hollywood. Of course, there were other Marcos affairs, but this was the one that made the headlines; the only instance wherein the woman herself admitted to being a mistress of the President of the Philippines. Primitivo Mijares
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