Imelda is suffering from pain and from a deep sense of loss and sorrow for the abortion about which I have told her. She feels inadequate and has been crying her eyes out.
I have shed no tears for my unborn child but I have vowed that I shall cure this sick and ailing society that has brought about the anguish of my wife which caused the abortion. For the media has been vicious—it has condemned for a crime not charged, foisted gossip as truth and disregarded the rights of fair and impartial trial.
And this sick man who has committed perjury, libel and bribery has done me at least one favor. He has opened my eyes to this illness of our society that may yet destroy it. And my duty and mission is now to cure that illness.
Imelda will go to the Makati Medical Center tomorrow at 7:00 AM for D and C (Dilatation and Cur[ettage]) then rest the whole day and go to Malacañan in the evening.
We have just discovered that notwithstanding his protestations that he is a poor man, he has a one-year time deposit of P100,000 in the Ermita Branch of the Philippine National Bank.
This was confirmed tonight at 11:00 PM by Pres. [Eusebio] Villatuya of PNB who woke up his cashier who remembered this transaction.
But the cashier remembers it was a treasury warrant that was deposited of over P103,000.
However, there is something strange here because he is supposed to receive only P46,000 as retirement pay which he declared in his latest income tax return and which he declared as spent.
So where did the P100,000 come from?
Official Gazette for June 2, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS worked at his desk aboard RPS Ang Pangulo even as he kept the First Lady, Imelda R. Marcos, company. Mrs. Marcos had been having spotting (mild bleeding) the past two days.
The President had to forego with one scheduled engagement, at the send-off ceremony of the RPS Mactan prior to its departure for Australia. He instead sent Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr. as his representative.
The 7500-ton ship has for its primary mission the picking up of 4000 of the 7500 tons of wheat flour donated by the Australian government as aid to refugees in Mindanao. Because the vessel would “sail down” with no significant load, it was decided that it be commissioned to carry a cargo of Philippine products for a Philippine Trading House in Sydney, which would serve as display center for Philippine goods. Hence the send-off rites.
In the course of the day, the President directed that a feasibility study be undertaken on large-scale salt-making, utilizing geothermal energy.
And so he is not as poor as he claims.
His house in Japan was declared by him for $10,000 in 1960, $12,000 in 1963 and P20,000 in 1966 although the exchange rate was about P4 to the dollar.
Then he had deposits of $37,500 in the United States which he has not declared and now it cannot be traced in his declarations of income as well as property.