Shortly after winning the presidency of the Philippines in May of last year, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. took his first congratulatory call from a foreign head of state.
U.S. President Joe Biden was on the line.
Biden's speed in wishing the new president well delighted Marcos, according to brother-in-law Gregorio Maria Aranetal, III, who said the Philippine leader proudly told his family about that call a few days later over lunch. It "put a smile on his face," Araneta, one of the country's most prominent tycoons, told Reuters in a rare interview, speaking from his wood-paneled office in Manila.
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