1:00 PM
June 6, 1972
Imelda came back to the palace at 10:30 AM. I pushed her in a wheelchair to the ground floor and on to the big Cadilac [sic] and up the small elevator to our quarters. But again on a wheelchair to Suite I.
She is still suffering pains from contractions but otherwise recovering normally although still depressed.
I shocked Ambassador [Henry] Byroade whom Sec. [Carlos] Romulo, on my direction, handed over to him the Note Verbal which requests the elevation of the negotiations on the Military Bases from the technical panel to the policy echelon level with the two points to be first discussed.
Duration of the bases
Intention of U.S. on long range missiles (ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] and IRBM [intermediate-range ballistic missile])
Juan T. David offered his services as lawyer for the First Lady. I politely refused him but thanked him.
Conferred with the lawyers, Sec. Vic [Vicente] Abad Santos, Sol. Gen. Estellito Mendoza, Sec. Juan Ponce Enrile, Dean Crispin Baizas and Delegate Estanislao Fernandez.
I demanded from the Herald Publisher, Sebastian Ugarte to tell me why the Herald is so vicious. My letter was hidden in a corner of page six. And at the back page a nasty article by Sanchez of the PNS [Philippine News Service] “RP Press not responsible for Imelda Abortion.”
He admitted that the press has been vicious and personal.
Met the Russian tourists.
The second page of this entry is misdated as June 6.
Official Gazette for June 5, 1972: THE PRESIDENT took Mrs. Marcos home at 11 a.m. after the First Lady was allowed to leave the Makati Medical Center upon her request.
After making sure that Mrs. Marcos was resting well following the short trip from the hospital to the Palace, the President resumed his desk work.