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(Mayor Arsenio H. Lacson (in dark glasses) with President Macapagal and Senator Marcos)
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President Diosdado Macapagal upon hearing the sad news, issued the following statement:
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"The nation will miss Arsenio H. Lacson; my Administration will miss him. He was the national sentinel of the public morality. As an individual I grieve over his death because he was a personal friend. As President, I mourn his demise because he was a loyal friend of the people. He did not live or die in vain. In my Administration, which he helped to bring about, his uncompromising crusade for clean government will continue to cast its influence as effectively as if he were still alive."
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Macapagal at 7:30 in the morning, the following day, administered the oath of office to Vice-Mayor Antonio J. Villegas as Mayor of Manila.
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Lacson was born in Talisay, Negros Occidental.  He came to live in Manila in 1922, when he was around 10 years old.  Lascon was sickly when he young and it was not until he grew up as a young man when he gained athletic build allowing him to start to venture into sports while a student at the Ateneo de Manila University. His broken nose that later became a prominent feature of his profile was a football injury.
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April 15, 1962: Manila Mayor Arsenio H. Lacson died of a heart attack at the Hotel Filipinas