![]() ![]() Still, the two events had enough similarities that perhaps I could be forgiven for mixing them up. ![]() That was the Manila Hotel in the Philippines in July 1986. ![]() Hold it! My old memory’s playing tricks on me again. The waiter who announced that the bar had run out of drinks and would soon be closing… The crush of media that seemed confused, almost overwhelmed, by the crowd’s fury. The slavishly loyal vice-president who would, the president hoped, restore him to power. The crowds of angry loyalists storming the building while overwhelmed security guards gave way. As an eyewitness, I can recall the events of January 6th in Washington as if they were yesterday. ![]()
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