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...When Calimlim arrived at MalacaNang Palace, the President was in his office with several advisers, speaking on the phone. He had already had a few drinks and was slurring his words. In a fit of anger following the call, he ordered everyone out of the office so that he could talk privately with his former aide. "You too, Calimlim?" asked the President, referring to his earlier conversation with Reyes. "Everyone has forsaken me." The President turned despondent, saying: "You know what I'll do? I'll just wait for one soldier to come and kill me." Calimlim remarked later that...
That's where Calimlim went when he left the drunken, distraught Estrada on Friday afternoon, joining Reyes, civilian Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado and a roll call of generals and admirals who had similarly shifted their support from Estrada to Arroyo, who had been his Vice President. The Filipino brass who hold so much power in this troubled democracy were welcomed into the opposition stronghold like conquering heroes by some 700,000 demonstrators. Reyes pledged his support to Arroyo in front of the crowd. Clearly grateful for the military allegiance that now seemed to ensure her ascension to the presidency, Arroyo...
Meanwhile, at least one Estrada ally was believed to be plotting to incite violence that would help the President justify use of his emergency powers to strengthen his grip on the military. According to a retired military officer, Estrada had planned to replace Chief of Staff Reyes with Calimlim. That plan collapsed when General Calimlim joined with Reyes in turning his back on Estrada...
...abruptly at 1 p.m last Friday, when Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Angelo Reyes and Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado informed him that the military was withdrawing its support from him. Concerned that Estrada had not fully understood the finality of the call, Reyes asked his deputy, General Jose Calimlim, to follow up the phone call with a personal visit. Calimlim, a trusted former aide-de-camp to Estrada, was a person who could perhaps coax him through pakikisama (camaraderie), the gentle pressure of "a friend, not an enemy...
...When Calimlim arrived at Malacanang Palace, the President was in his office with several advisers, speaking on the phone. In a fit of anger following the call, he ordered everyone out of the office so that he could talk privately with Calimlim. "You too?" the President then said. "Everybody has forsaken me." It was clear that he had been drinking, and Calimlim observed that he was "despondent," saying at one point, "You know what I'll do? I'll just wait for one soldier to come in and kill me." Calimlim later remarked that "it was as if the whole...