President Cory Aquino's last SONA - July 22, 1991 Part 4/5

When opposition Senator Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino was assassinated in August 1983, Filipinos rallied around the widow Corazon Aquino who symbolized all those who were victimized by the Marcos dictatorship. The housewife with no political experience found herself elected president of the Philippines after the overthrow of Marcoses authoritarian rule. As the Philippiness first female president, she presided over the transition to democracy facing the challenges of no less than seven military coups attempting to topple her government. In this 1991 speech, her last State of the Nation Address, she reviewed her term of office, focusing on her husbands ideas and the image of women as moral guardians. Aquino constantly refers to her Catholic religiosity. Note that her speech does not reflect a feminist perspective. Corazon Aquino presided over the transition of government from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one and she did not express an interest in womens issues. After six years in office, she still focuses on her husband and his ideas. Though politically prominent in her own right, Corazon Aquino was perceived to be the alter ego of her husband, a Filipino hero.

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[maikeru278]

maikeru278 joins the whole entire Filipino nation in remembering the 1st Woman President, Mrs. COrazon Cojuanco Aquino. Rest in Peace, Madame President. You're the icon of Democracy of our country.

[junemercado]

maraming salamat po madam President Cory

[Djygeneral]

Kayong mga nanlalait kay Cory dapat lang na i-thumbs down mga comment nyo, mga makikitid utak.Pwe! Pwe! At ikaw kailokuan,FYI HINDI NYA INAGAW ANG PANUNUNGKULAN,AT MATINO SYANG PRESIDENTE DI KAGAYA NI GMA.

[arceem06]

she might not be the most intelligent and best president but she's the most sincere trustworthy and God fearing president.. Ur legacy will remain forever

[mucharasias]

she has been our savior from all of the things happened for the past years of the marcos regime and if she didn't go for through all of this things we still be the poor filipinos unlike today that we are organize in everything its just the corruptions that made us so down in the mud of greediness, envy and jealousy of the past presidents!

[kailokuan]

@junemercado ... don't say thnks to that woman...bec, she didn't do anything, she started the corruptions.then ramos,gloria......open ur eyes dude..and ask people around philippines who is the best president who could actually look up to the poor people...

[kailokuan]

she didn't do anything to philippines....she started it,hen ramos, arroyo to make the philippiines freakin d most corrupted in asia...if the husband didnt get shot then she couldn't stole the office,same like the son now,if ecory didnt die then he couldn't have won the election....

[iammaryyanne]

clap

[Leyteprinz]

A woman who dressed up with sunshine and a candle lit up to give light to a country who suffered so much previously she came to rescue us and sets us free and to enjoy freedom and democracy...thank you tita cory! now our country is being curtailed with another darkness thru this woman who named gloria arroyo who abused her position for her familes interests, and now your son NOYNOY is continuing to fight to stop this admininistration....please help your son win this fight for us to prosper!..