Worked on the Democratic Revolution from 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM. Then slept again up to 10:00 AM.
Slept at 9:00 [P]M last night as I was tired.
Met Amb. [Henry] Byroade who informed me of the delivery this August of 5 helicopters.
And of the withdrawal of the name of Garcia from the settlement of the Clark Air Force Base strike—which leaves it unsettled. And this is due to the KM’s [Kabataang Makabayan] who have intervened as they do not want the strike settled.
I asked Amb. Byroade again point blank, what the Americans would do if I declared martial law after the elections and after the Cons. Con. [Constitutional Convention] had acted on the principal issues—and he said that he had asked Pres. [Richard] Nixon and the latter had said that they would not only do anything to interfere but would support the action of the Philippine president.
So my mind is at peace on this score. The reading of the Pentagon documents has given misgivings.
Official Gazette for August 7, 1971: President Marcos trimmed his scheduled callers to only a few, even as he concentrated more on desk work and other urgent state business. The President buckled down to paper work shortly after breakfast.
Toward noon he received Gov. Petronilo Seares of Abra, who apprised him on matters concerning his constituency, and Judge Serafin E. Camilon whom he inducted as judge of the court of first instance of Negros Occidental, with jurisdiction over the cities of Bacolod, Silay, San Carlos, La Carlota, Bogo and Cadiz. The induction ceremony was witnessed by the inductee’s wife Constancia, brother Benjamin, and Senator Helen Z. Benitez.
The President resumed his paper work in the afternoon, in the process issuing an order creating the Philippine Virginia Tobacco Board which will, among others, serve as an institutional link between the government and the private sectors involved in the Philippine Virginia tobacco industry. In creating the board, the President emphasized that the preservation, promotion and enhancement of the Philippine Virginia tobacco industry require a vigorous, concerned and integrated planning and programming, and a coordinated implementation of projects relative to the industry.
Named to compose the tobacco board were the chairman/general manager of the Philippine Virginia Tobacco Administration, as chairman, and the following as members: The commissioner of the Agricultural Productivity Commission, the administrator of the Agricultural Credit Administration, the commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the directors of the Bureau of Plant Industry and of the Bureau of Soils, a representative elected or designated by the cigarette manufacturers who have a contract with the PVTA to operate trading centers, a representative of tobacco redriers and exporters who have contracts with the PVTA to operate trading centers; an official of the PVTA, to be designated by the PVTA chairman with the concurrence of the board, who will act as executive secretary, and the corporate treasurer of the PVTA, who will be ex-officio treasurer of the board.