MANILA, Philippines — Former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III loved talking to people that he would have an early chitchat with a butler or casual talks with US secret service agents over dinner in some of his foreign trips.
It was during one of their foreign trips when former Energy Secretary Rene Almendras chanced upon the butler, a foreigner, in a presidential suite where he was seated and having a conversation with Aquino one early morning.
“Muntik ng himatayin yung butler [The butler almost collapsed],” Almendras, Aquino’s close friend, said in an interview over CNN Philippines Monday.
“The butler was so apologetic,” he added as he recalled the butler telling him,…
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