Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===Presidential campaign===
{{Main|1965 Philippine presidential election}}
[[File:Ferdinand Marcos and Fernando Lopez 1965.jpg|thumb|Ferdinand Marcos with his running mate [[Fernando Lopez]] during campaign in 1965]]
[[File:Marcos-1stInauguration.jpg|thumb|Ferdinand Marcos is sworn into his first term on December 30, 1965.]]

Marcos ran a populist campaign emphasizing that he was a medalled war hero. In 1962, Marcos claimed to be the most decorated war hero of the Philippines by garnering almost every medal and decoration that the Filipino and American governments had established.<ref name="mijares246">{{Harvp|Mijares|1976|p=246}}.</ref> Included in his claim of 27 war medals and decorations are those of the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor.<ref name="mijares246" /><ref name="chicagoTribune1">{{cite news |last=Reaves |first=Joseph A. |date=September 29, 1989 |title=Marcos Was More Than Just Another Deposed Dictator |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/09/29/marcos-was-more-than-just-another-deposed-dictator/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903122449/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-09-29/news/8901180123_1_mr-marcos-ferdinand-edralin-marcos-martial-law/2 |archive-date=September 3, 2014 |access-date=August 31, 2014 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}{{cite web |title=US Department of Defense official database of Distinguished Service Cross recipients |url=https://valor.defense.gov/Recipients/Army-Distinguished-Service-Cross-Recipients/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823010206/https://valor.defense.gov/Recipients/Army-Distinguished-Service-Cross-Recipients// |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref> The opposition Liberal Party later confirmed that many of his war medals were awarded in 1962 to aid in his Senate election campaign.<ref name="conjugal" /> As a result, Marcos won the election.<ref>{{cite book |author=Abinales, P.N. |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=nwDzRHOc7cwC|page=156}} |title=Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the formation of the Philippine nation-state |publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-971-550-349-5 |page=156}}</ref>