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...face lifting. U.S. Presidential Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers bustled from airport to embassy to Malacanang Palace (the Filipino White House) making arrangements for everything from protocol dinners to a Lyndon-and-Lady Bird tour of nearby Corregidor. Marcos' aides wrote hurried position papers, while his First Lady, lovely Imelda Romualdez Marcos, supervised a hurry-up renovation of the palace itself. The twittering of sparrows in the upper reaches of the palace reception hall was drowned in the rattle of hammers and snarl of saws...
...sportsman and Lothario: when he wasn't blasting quail and ducks with his 20-gauge Browning over-under, he was breaking hearts in Forbes Park. That ended one day in 1954 when he wooed and won the daughter of one of the islands' wealthiest families. Sugar-rich Imelda Romualdez, cousin of House Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez, was crunching watermelon seeds as she listened to Marcos orate in the House. When Marcos finished, he went up to the erstwhile Miss Manila (a proudly packaged 36-23-35) and asked: "Would you mind standing up, please?" Back to back, Marcos determined that...
Nicely-Nicely Johnson. From then on, it was a whirl of receptions and dinners. Imelda, dressed for each occasion in one of 40 butterfly-sleeved Filipino ter-nos that she had brought along, was usually the center of attention. Her yellow terno caught Lyndon Johnson's eye. "That is my favorite color too-yellow," he told her. "Actually," she confided later, "my favorite color is pink. But he is the President...
Their first morning in Washington, Marcos and Imelda were escorted to the north portico of the White House. There Lyndon Johnson's warm greeting reflected his gratitude for Marcos' decision, in the face of strong congressional opposition and strident criticism from local leftists and nationalists, to commit a 2,000-man Filipino force to Viet Nam. On the eve of his departure for his 15-day U.S. swing, Marcos had seen off 700 members of a security battalion before they boarded two Saigon-bound troopships. Said Johnson, obviously moved: "Your people and mine have shared suffering and victory...
...Center Light Opera Company regaled the 180 guests in the East Room with songs from Broadway musicals-including Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat, a number from Guys and Dolls sung by that inveterate crap-shooter and horse player, Nicely-Nicely Johnson. Not to be outdone, Imelda rose during a reception for the U.S. President at the Shoreham Hotel the following night and sang Because of You in her native Tagalog, aiming every inflection at a radiant Lyndon Johnson...