Worked the paper on the foreign policy for the communist countries.
It is my intention to deliver this as a speech before the Rotary International 301-A tomorrow noon.
Talked to Imelda who called up at 4:30 AM (this morning) as she wanted to clear her speech before the Praesidium. And she leaves for Leningrad tomorrow. She is still complaining of the cold. Still 10 below 0.
Met the Fokker people who are trying to sell a Fokker jet for $4.1 million to $4.8 million. I do not believe we should buy this. I told them we would have to repair the MIA first.
Then met some delegates and members of the Senate.
And distributed the titles to the lands of the Taal victims. The resettlement is in Batangas.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.
Juan Ona in an email 21 April 2018 provides an amusing angle to the visit:
“The KGB committed a major blunder. It assigned a Spanish-speaking agent as the administrative liaison officer (traffic, security, accommodation, material schedules, etc.). The KGB was not as flexible, efficient, and all-powerful as everybody thought. It failed to replace him with an English speaker. Since besides the First Lady, I was the only Spanish-speaker in our group, I became rather important. During our first night in the Soviet guest dacha in Lenin Hills, her maid Lucy Rabino woke me up. The FL was asking for orange juice, and Lucy could not make herself understood. I went to the KGB agent and he ordered the kitchen to take orange juice to the FL. It was well past midnight and the FL was still talking with the President! I am sure the Soviets had the entire several hours conversation recorded. Good for them! Surely they had a good time listening to the Imeldifics, embellished in Tagalog, Visayan, Waray, and Ilocano. Since then I made it a point to stay up late, just in case the FL needed something.”