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So I've been considering a TL about President Ramon Magsaysay reforming the Philippines into a first-world country early on. I really need ideas for it, and I it would really help If I get free sources of info about his presidency. And sorry if I had to cancel my summer TL. I am just 14 years old. Though Alternate History is one of my hobbies, I have lots of other stuff to do, like seminars, workshops and my own leisure. I still have my lessons during summer, and these are the reasons why my Dices and Rivers TL was a rushed work and I admit that it was poorly-written. So I start with these few questions:
1. What more could he have done?
2. Who would have been the presidents after him? They should do more reforms so that the Philippines would be wealthy.
3. How to disarm the conservative wing of Congress?
4. How to destroy that cursed 60/40 equity act before 1974?
5. The Philippines should have a strong military, perhaps one of the largest in the world or at least, the region.
6. Population and Possible GDP Growth Rate of the Philippines, TTL 1957-Onwards.
7. I will make most international changes, but I do need help. I will post more theads spanning the entire globe, and all of these will be in accordance to the main of idea of Magsaysay surviving his crash.
8. This is important: How does he survive the crash? Where would his plane crash then? I've read an article and it said that Magsaysay's body was burnt beyond recognition. So I thought that having Magsaysay and Nestor Mata switch seats prior to the crash would be the POD.
(Most probably both of them go for a restroom break. Magsaysay does it earlier, and Mata is next in line. Mata would be in the restroom while Magsaysay is going to his front seat just behind the cockpit, and then comes the 'metal fatigue' [frankly I am under the impression that he was assassinated quietly for being a reformist, and was iced by the elite in the Philippines for being pro-reform and consequently against the elitist wing of Congress. I've read that these people tried to hinder reform], and he is forced to sit on Mata's seat, and the plane crashes like it did IOTL. Mata's 'magic seat', to be short. Magsaysay is the sole survivor of the crash.)
8. One last thing: Economic policy should be prudent. They should see to it that debt is low, there is a continued budget surplus, but there is still high-quality healthcare and education should be the best in the world.
More questions should arise as we discuss.
Thoughts? Thank you all in advance for the help!
PS: I should use a larger font size. So this is it.