Philippines: President Ferdinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda Marcos in Leyte, 20 October 1984. Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos (11 September 1917 - 28 September 1989) was the 10th President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives (1949-1959) and a member of the Philippine Senate (1959-1965). In 1983, his government was implicated in the assassination of his primary political opponent, Benigno Aquino, Jr. The implication caused a chain of events that eventually led to his removal from power in 1986 and his exile in Hawaii.

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