The late scholar Benito Legarda Jr. once told me the question of collaboration during World War II had long been settled by the time President Manuel Roxas issued an amnesty to high- and middle ...

Manuel Roxas, first in 1913; Jose Laurel, second in 1915; Elpidio Quirino, second in 1915; Carlos P. Garcia, seventh in 1938; Diosdado Macapagal, first place in 1936 and Ferdinand Edralin Marcos ...