It seems there is a tug of war going on, with one group wanting the President to unhesitatingly throw in his lot with the Marcoses, while the President at the very least, is still playing coy: in response, it seems, to his son's pressure, the President made a pointed reference to the billions of pesos in uncollected estate tax that the BIR recently reminded the Marcoses of. But my column this week spells out why the Marcoses would gain from a presidential endorsement.