Ferdinand Marcos Dies in Exile

In the editorial you concluded that Marcos will be remembered in his nation’s history “if only as a name to be reviled by generations of Filipinos yet unborn.” I could not help recalling that President Bush, not many years ago, while he was Ronald Reagan’s vice president, told Marcos that America admired his form of government.

I have found no mention of this in The Times or anywhere else. It is as though George Bush had never said it. National memories are very strange things.

PHILIP WALKER

Santa Barbara