Marcos' Wife's Shoes
July, 1986
How stupidly the mighty have fallen: Just a month after he fled the Philippines like a jeweled rat, Ferdinand Marcos sat in his Hawaiian bungalow, dabbing at his rheumy eyes, trying to explain to Ted Koppel why his wife, Imelda, needed 3000 pairs of shoes. For 20 years, he and Imelda had practiced a style that would have driven Henry VIII from the party, had hoarded a booty that would have made every Louis of France blush, and somehow---like Nero's fiddle and Marie Antoinette's cake---Imelda's s...
