Corazon Aquino

Week of Sept. 29, 1986
Corazon Aquino's first trip to the U.S. as President of the Philippines leaves lawmakers with the impression that Ferdinand Marcos' successor is not only honest and determined but sophisticated as well. House Speaker Tip O'Neill calls her half-hour address to Congress the "finest speech I've ever heard in my 34 years in Congress."

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