Cory Aquino

a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/world/asia/01aquino.html?hp"Rest in peace./abr /br /I had the good fortune to meet President Aquino twice, once in 1996 and once in 1997. At the first meeting I was running the media equipment for her meeting with the University of Oregon Philippine-American Student Association. My boss gave me one instruction: Make sure to get her autograph. She was clearly tired (especially since every member of the Association wanted an autograph) but was nonetheless a good sport, and finally signed for the media tech. For the second meeting, she gave a guest lecture to a twenty-student Political Science course in which I was enrolled. She was Good People. I also remember that she was extraordinarily small. In terms of her political activity, she was dealt a very difficult hand, but her contribution to Philippine democracy will, I think, endure.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-4229812995670912296?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div