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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Jury selection for her trial on racketeering and other charges carrying up to 50 years in prison started last week in the same courtroom that saw the bravura performances of Leona Helmsley and Bess Myerson. For sheer Wagnerian greed, the tale of Imelda could put the Hotel Queen to shame. Jurors will have to decide whether a wife always knows what her husband is up to -- in this case, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, who died last September. "The Marcoses were masters of deception," said prosecutors. "They elevated three- card monte ((a form of shell game)) to an art form." Scoffed...
...problem with that, of course, is that resigning the presidency is something that is beyond their imagination. And so, consequently, that's why throughout the book I tried to put it in a context that they could understand. But I felt that if I could let them see what I went through, and how I at least recovered in part, that that might tell them that life wasn't over...
Henry is a world-class strategist. He has incredible stamina, which makes him a great negotiator. He'll wear you out. How he does it, I don't know. He has an insatiable appetite for all the treats they put on the table. Henry would sit there in negotiations, he'd have the peanuts out and the rest, and he'd be talking between mouthfuls. But on the other hand, that gave him the energy to keep going. But Henry needed...
...felt it would have been very helpful politically if we could have a settlement before the election. But I felt that until it was nailed, we should not even breathe a word about it, because I thought that then it put the responsibility on us to make the concessions...
...them, I wouldn't tell you. Put it that...