Rice for Progress #1023 to 1025, 12 Jun 1969

Inauguration of President Marcos in 1965

#950 to 921 12 Jun 1966

Tourism

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Imelda Marcos is depicted in native attire at Nayong Pilipino, a seven village complex near the international airport that showcase tourist spots all over the country.

Later in 1972 an alleged staged assassination attempt was made on Imelda Marcos at Nayong Pilipino

Imelda Marcos

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Imelda Marcos (born Imelda Romualdez) was the wife of President Ferdinand Marcos, the tenth First Lady of the Philippines, and was herself a controversial and influential political figure in the Philippines .

IMELDA MARCOS

At the age of 18, Imelda became a beauty queen and was crowned the "Rose of Tacloban," and "Miss Leyte". Returning to Manila in 1953, her face graced many of Manila's magazine covers and she was named the "Muse of Manila" by then Manila Mayor, Arsenio Lacson, a special title given her after she protested her loss in the Miss Manila pageant.

In 1954, Imelda met Congressman Ferdinand Marcos. They were married in May of that year. In 1966, Ferdinand Marcos became the President of the Philippines. In September 1972 President Marcos declared martial law. It was during this subsequent period that Imelda Marcos assumed a more public and powerful role in the government. Imelda was appointed by her husband to various positions in the government, such as: Governor of Metropolitan Manila, Minister of Human Settlement, and Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary. In 1978, she was 'elected' as member of the 165-member Interim Batasang Pambansa (National Assembly).

Imelda initiated a number of short lived short-lived social programs included a national family-planning program to reduce the country's population growth. Imelda Marcos was criticized for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on high-profile infrastructure projects that did little to alleviate poverty and were beyond the reach of ordinary Filipinos. These included the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Philippine Heart Center, Lung Center of the Philippines, Kidney Institute of the Philippines, Nayong Pilipino; Philippine International Convention Center, Folk Arts Theater, Coconut Palace, and the infamous Manila Film Center

In February 1986, Ferdinand Marcos and his family fled to Hawaii after his regime was toppled by the four-day People Power Revolution in EDSA. After the Marcos family fled Malacanang Palace, Imelda was found to have left behind 15 mink coats, 508 gowns, 888 handbags and 1060 pairs of shoes.

Imelda Marcos was the first wife of a foreign head of state to stand trial in an American court. In 1990 she was acquitted of racketeering and fraud charges.

In 1991, Imelda Marcos was finally allowed to return to the Philippines. In 1995, she was elected Congresswoman of Leyte, representing the first district of her home province. During the administration of her friend and ally, President Joseph Estrada, many of the cases filed by the Aquino government were dismissed owing to technicalities. There are many cases against Imelda Marcos still pending and awaiting hearing .

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