"Macapagal March" - Diosdado Macapagal Vice Presidential Campaign Jingle (1957)

About the recording:

This recording is part of a cassette tape of Philippine political songs from 1957 which is part of the Wilgus D.K. collection in the University of California Los Angeles Library.

About Macapagal:

Diosdado Pangan Macapagal served as the ninth President of the Philippines from 1961 to 1965. He previously served as Vice President from 1957 to 1961.

In the 1957 general elections, the Liberal Party drafted Congressman Macapagal to run for vice president as the running-mate of José Y. Yulo, a former speaker of the House of Representatives. Macapagal's nomination was particularly boosted by Liberal Party president Eugenio Pérez, who insisted that the party's vice presidential nominee have a clean record of integrity and honesty. While Yulo was defeated by Carlos P. Garcia of the Nacionalista Party, Macapagal was elected vice president in an upset victory, defeating the Nacionalista candidate, José B. Laurel, Jr., by over eight percentage points. A month after the election, he was chosen as the president of the Liberal Party.

As the first ever Philippine vice president to be elected from a rival party of the president, Macapagal served out his four-year vice presidential term as a leader of the opposition.

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SOURCES

Audio recording: https://digital.library.ucla.edu/cata...

Images:

“Flag of the Vice President of the Philippines". Retrieved from https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/...

"Old Seal of the Vice President of the Philippines". Retrieved from https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/...

All other images used in this video were taken from the digitized photo collection of the Philippine Presidential Museum and Library; particularly, the album on Pres. Diosdado Macapagal. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/govph/a...


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