Water skiing and swimming the whole morning at Limbones. Exercised before that.
Lunch at 12:00 AM [sic]. Over-ate!!
Napped up to 4:30 from about 2:00 PM.
Then went to the Palace for the conference with the American ambassador who came all the way from Baguio (where his wife is hiding out after plastic surgery by Dr. Piamonte) the two base commanders of Subic and Clark and their staffs.
I attach the papers.
I announced that there was no violation of the Bases agreement as there was no direct launching of combat operations from the bases and if there should be any they were in accordance with the decision of the Mutual Defense Board or the agreements in accordance with Seato [Southeast Asia Treaty Organization] (like the anti-submarine patrols).
Official Gazette for May 14, 1972: THE PRESIDENT had a two-hour briefing late in the afternoon from U.S. civil and military officials in Malacañang.
Headed by U.S. Ambassador Henry Byroade, the U.S. officials who were at the Palace were Maj. Gen. James Frankosky, acting U.S. 13th Air Force commander; Rear Admiral John H. Dick, commander of U.S. naval forces in the Philippines and representative of the commander-in-chief of the U.S. forces in the Pacific; and Minister William Hamilton and Col. Alfred Patterson of the U.S. embassy.
Also at the briefing were Secretary of Foreign Affairs Carlos P. Romulo, Secretary of National Defense Juan Ponce Enrile, Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr., General Romeo Espino, AFP chief of staff; and commanders of the major AFP commands.
In an interview with newsmen later, the President said the question of whether any combat missions had been flown from Clark Air Force Base and Subic Naval Base was clarified. The answer, he said, “is in the negative.”
The President went over some urgent state papers earlier in the day.