“Ferdinand had foresight and unbelievable luck. His success actually bordered on fiction.”

— Imelda Marcos

As quoted in "Imelda and the Cash" by Werner Raffetseder in Saga magazine (April 1998).

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Former First Lady of the Philippines 1929

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