Diosdado Macapagal was a distinguished Filipino politician who served as the sixth President of the Philippines from 1961 to 1965. Renowned for his government reforms and economic promotion, Macapagal was born on September 28, 1910, and passed away on April 21, 1997.
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“I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.”
Source: New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal
Source: A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President
“The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.”