9:30 AM
After Tina Castillo’s
wedding
Imelda has given me a gold Libra necklace which symbolizes September (although she says I am a Virgo). But most important is her touching note on our 18th wedding anniversary which I attach.
As my children would say, “Nakakaiyak naman.” They (our children) have sent us a cable “Aren’t we worth the 18 years wait? Happy anniversary! Love always.”
Mass at the palace where we renewed our vows at 11:30 AM. Lunch at 1:00 PM, nap up to 2:30 PM, then the Labor Day Speech at SSS [Social Security System], golf, Dinner at the State Dining Room where we also viewed the movie “Nicolas and Alexandra.”
The movie raised the question of what we should do for our country now.
We could enjoy a comfortable life of contentment and non-involvement in retirement but we would leave a people and a society wasted by violence, corruption and social injustice—a country that will ultimately fall unto the hands of the communists.
So since no one else can save the people and the country, we must stake life, honor and fortune once again! This is my dominant thought on my wedding anniversary.
Official Gazette for May 1, 1972: THE PRESIDENT and the First Lady, Imelda R. Marcos, observed their wedding anniversary quietly with a few close relatives and friends at Malacañang.
The First Couple renewed marriage vows at a wedding anniversary Mass said shortly before noon at the ceremonial hall of the Palace. They were joined at the Mass by close relatives, including the President’s mother, Doña Josefa Edralin Marcos; and a few friends, including some members of the Cabinet and their wives.
After a late lunch, the President motored to the SSS auditorium in Quezon City, where he addressed the National Labor Unity Congress which spearheaded the celebration of Labor Day.
In his speech, the President called on labor to cast aside the petty jealousies and parochial interests of its leaders and unite in order “to undertake political action of a magnitude that can decisively influence the direction of policy.”
He stressed that considering the fact that the wage-earners and the peasants represent the most numerous class, it is ironic that the power of labor in this country “is very much less” than what it should be.
The President underscored the failure of workers and farmers to develop into a significant political force which “retards further the development of our democracy and threatens the very existence of that democracy.”