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The conclusion of agreement with Japan to build the multi-purpose Marikina project to generate industrial power for waterworks and industrial use and will irrigate 6,200 hectares of rice lands;
The telecommunications project which will connect the provinces, cities, municipalities and even rural areas to Manila;
The completion of the Binga hydroelectric project with a capacity of 100,000 kilowatts;
The extension of the MRR to Cagayan Valley and Sorsogon with work about to be started;
The construction of a Mindanao development road system of almost 800 kilometers, of which 419 kilometers have already been completed;
The establishment of a merchant marine to increase our tonnage of foreign shipping through the acquisition of 12 ships by the NDC with a total dead-weight tonnage of 130,000 and an additional tonnage of 35,200 already obtained through the Reparations Agreement, our immediate goal here being 500,000 tons of foreign shipping; and
The establishment of new industries in 1958, among the most important of which being the multi-million peso Republic Flour Mill with four others to follow;
The establishment of a ramie processing plant in Davao.
Implementing the Retail Trade Nationalization Act, the Department of Commerce and Industry registered and assisted a great number of new Filipino retailers.

Garcia was criticized by foreign countries, especially the United States for his anti-foreign policies. There was also corruption within the Bureau of Internal Revenue in which he had the implement the Austerity Program.

1-2. What are the 2 nicknames used by President Carlos P. Garcia?
3. Where did he work as teacher? Mention the school and location.
4. He was born in what province?
5. In 1924, he was married to?

Answer: 1-2 Prince of Visayan Poets"and the Bard from Bohol, 3. Bohol Provincial High School, 4. Talibon, Bohol ; 5. Leonila Dimataga

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_P._Garcia
http://bloomspresidents.wordpress.com/carlos-p- garcia-1957-1961/
http://malacanang.gov.ph/presidents/third- carlos-garcia/
http://www.gov.ph/1959/01/26/carlos-p-garcia-second-state-of-the-nation-address-january-26-1959/

Prepared by:
Ma. Angelica dela Cruz
Wency Ayeza A. Manegdeg
Julius Keno Jae Agno

“I would rather be right than successful. I would rather keep faith with justice than with power.”

- C. Garcia

García was born in Talibon, Bohol, to Policronio García and Ambrosia Polistico (who were both natives of Bangued, Abra).
García grew up with politics, with his father serving as a municipal mayor for four terms. He acquired his primary education in his native Talibon, then took his secondary education in Cebu Provincial High School. Initially, he pursued his college education at Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, and later studied at the Philippine Law School (now Philippine College of Criminology) where he earned his law degree in 1923. He was among the top ten in the bar examination.
Rather than practice law right away, he worked as a teacher for two years at Bohol Provincial High School. He became famous for his poetry in Bohol, where he earned the nickname "Prince of Visayan Poets" and the "Bard from Bohol".
In 1924, he married to Leonila Dimataga they had a daughter namely Linda Garcia-Ocampos.

Post-presidency and death

After his failed re–election bid, García retired to Tagbilaran to live as a private citizen. On June 1, 1971, García was elected delegate of the 1971 Constitutional Convention. The convention delegates elected him as the President of the Convention. However, just days after his election, on June 14, 1971, García died from a fatal heart attack. He was succeeded as president of the Convention by his former Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal.
García became the first president to have his remains lie in-state at the Manila Cathedral and the first president to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

He started his political career in 1925, scoring an impressive victory running for congressman representing the third district of Bohol. He was elected for another term in 1928 and served until 1931. He was elected governor of Bohol in 1933 but served only until 1941 when he successfully ran for the Philippine Senate but his term cut short during World War II. He took the post when Congress convened in 1945 after the Philippines was liberated from the Japanese.

García was the running mate of Ramón Magsaysay in the presidential election of 1953. He was appointed Secretary of Foreign Affairs by President Ramón Magsaysay, for four years concurrently serving as vice president.
He opened formal reparation negotiations in an effort to end the nine-year technical state of war between Japan and the Philippines, leading to an agreement in April 1954.
During the Geneva Conference on Korean unification and other Asian problems, García as chairman of the Philippine delegation attacked communist promises in Asia and defended the U.S. policy in the Far East. In a speech on May 7, 1954, the day of the fall of Dien Bien Phu, García repeated the Philippine stand for nationalism and opposition of communism.
García acted as chairman of the eight-nation Southeast Asian Security Conference held in Manila in September 1954, which led to the development of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, known as SEATO.

President García's tomb at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

June 19, 1957, President Carlos P. García signed the said bill into law as Republic Act No. 1700, With this legislative piece, the sustained government campaign for peace and order achieved considerable progress and success .
Republic Act No. 1700 was superseded by Presidential Decree No. 885, entitled "Outlawing Subversive Organization, Penalizing Membership Therein and For Other Purposes." In turn, Presidential Decree 885 was amended by Presidential Decree No. 1736, and later superseded by Presidential Decree No. 1835, entitled, "Codifying The Various Laws on Anti-Subversion and Increasing the Penalties for Membership in Subversive Organization."
March 3, 1960, he affirmed the need for complete economic freedom and added that the government no longer would tolerate the dominance of foreign interests (especially American) in the national economy.
President García initiated what has been called "The Austerity Program". The main points of the Austerity Program were :
1. The government would tighten up its controls to prevent abuses in the over shipment of exports under license and in under-pricing as well.
2. There would be a more rigid enforcement of the existing regulations on barter shipments.
3. Government imports themselves were to be restricted to essential items.
4. The government also would reduce rice imports to a minimum.
5. An overhauling of the local transportation system would be attempted so as to reduce the importation of gasoline and spare parts.
6. The tax system would be revised so as to attain more equitable distribution of the payment-burden and achieve more effective collection from those with ability to pay.
7. There would be an intensification of food production.