#headbustselfie

[thematarese]

#HeadBustSelfie with #ApolinarioMabini y Maranan: ✔️First #PrimeMinister of the 🇵🇭 ✔️Minister of @dfaphl ✔️The first best son of #TanauanBatangas ✔️Lawyer, also nominated Chief Justice of the First Republic's Supreme Court ✔️Chief #CamaraNegra of Pres. Aguinaldo / ✔️"The Man who had THE President's ear" ✔️Aguinaldo's favoured "successor" ✔️Purely educated in the Philippines True blue #Batangueno: Wala mang yaman, hindi naman mauubusan ng ipagmamayabang. #FaithWanders #ChasingHistory #TheLawyerAndI #TheMinisterAndI #WhenInBatangas #NoFilter (at Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoI0TsYgB8Z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l2a7k4s3xbxp

[thematarese]

With Gen. #EmilioAguinaldo y Famy, a subject of curiosity and preoccupation until early last week. Still curious about him, but am now preoccupied with another 🇵🇭 President. Random info: ✔️First PH President, winning an election even without his participation ✔️First PH dictator ✔️Of Chinese-Tagalog descent ✔️Served as barangay captain and mayor in Kawit ✔️A businessman in his teens #FaithWanders #ChasingHistory #HeadBustSelfie #ThePresidentAndI #WhenInCavite (at Aguinaldo Shrine) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoIbiGeA3Y1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ykll5fz7fu01

[thematarese]

#HeadBustSelfie with Pres. #JosePLaurel of the Second Republic . . Unfortunately unfairly labeled and misjudged albeit his contributions to and through the three branches of the government, the only 🇵🇭 #President to have done so, only because he served during the #JapaneseOccupation. ✔️Stayed behind by order of Pres. Manuel Luis Quezon so there would be someone to "meet with the Japanese" (what confidence in this man's ability and fortitude); ✔️Saved Manuel Acuna Roxas twice who would later become the first president of the Third Republic; ✔️Saved other men close to him (even one who was his supposed assassin) and thousands of Filipinos through his admin programs and defiance to Imperial Japan; ✔️Turned Malacanan Palace into a fortress of Filipinos, rebels included, as (pulling a Gandalf) no Japanese was allowed entry; ✔️Albeit his passive proclamation no. 30, out of death threat, "that a state of war exists between the Republic of the #Philippines and the United States of America and Great Britain" he prohibited Filipino consription into the Japanese military; ✔️Co-author of Claro M. Recto for R.A. 1425 or the Rizal Law, which the Catholic Church strongly opposed for the same reasons the frayles had; ✔️Founded the Lyceum of the Philippines in 1952 ✔️Second best son of #TanauanBatangas ✔️Lawyer, educator, senator, associate justice, secretary of interior, president . 24 September 2018. #FaithWanders #WhenInBatangas #SoloTour #NoFilter #HelloEyebags (at Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoVL2CrgKux/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l5cygucrwtvo