MANILA, Philippines — “He wasn’t fond of me but I could not bring myself not to admire him.”
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. had this to say Thursday as he grieved the passing of former president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.
“I’m out of Twitter from grief over the death of a sea-green incorruptible, brave under armed attack, wounded in crossfire, indifferent to power and its trappings, and ruled our country with a puzzling coldness but only because he hid his feelings so well it was thought he had none,” Locsin said in a tweet.
I’m out of Twitter from grief over the death of a sea-green incorruptible, brave under armed attack, wounded in crossfire, i…
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