"Our boss's birthdays were all spent on the offshore islands with military officials," says Kao Chih-wei, Chiang Ching-kuo's photographer from 1978 onwards. He remembers Chiang's seventieth birthday, which was spent at sea on a warship.
「我們『老闆』的生日，都是在外島和官兵一起過的」，從一九七八年開始擔任總統攝影官的高稚偉，還記得經國先生七十歲生日，就是在東引外海的「建陽艦」上度過的，當天艦上官兵們還親手做了個生日蛋糕。