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* Diosdado Macapagal

* Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

* Solita Monsod

* Joey Salceda

Diosdado Macapagal

His family was poor (hence his nickname "poor boy from Lubao"), but with the help of Honorio Ventura, the Secretary of Interior at that time, he studied law and graduated in the University of Santo Tomas and pursued and earned the postgraduate degree of Doctor of Civil Law and Ph.D.

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in Economics in the same university.

During the Japanese occupation of World War II, Macapagal served as support to the anti-Japanese task force and as an intelligence liaison to the US guerillas. It was during this period that his first wife died.

He later married Evangelina Macaraeg, the mother of current Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Arroyo, a practicing economist, has made the economy the focus of her presidency.

Early in her presidency, Arroyo implemented a controversial policy of holiday economics