[p.3[ Mrs. Agnew left this morning to join VP Agnew at Taipeh. Meldy had breakfast with her—7:30—she was not awake so she (Meldy) waited for 8:30 AM.
Last Dec. 29, 1969 when I was playing golf, two sausage twin-rotor engine Navy (US) helicopters for VP [Spiro] Agnew landed at the golf course and obstructed the whole fairway. When we asked that they move a little to the side so we could play through they did not bother but said we could go right ahead and hit the helicopter with our balls. Typical younger generation comment on this was Imee’s “Yabang na mga Kano….”
Ordered protection for the nine teachers of Batanes testifying about terrorism, a public hearing on the Nawasa rates hike, Comm. [Commissioner Misael] Vera (BIR) [Bureau of Internal Revenue]) to study a years amnesty for untaxed incomes voluntarily disclosed. In Ising’s [Maria Luisa Madrigal-Vazquez] party I asked Charlie Ledesma, President of the Sugar Planters, to bring the planters to the Palace on the 14th so I could convince them to pay the sacadas the minimum wage. Also ordered Gen. Yan to implement my original order to retrain the Special Forces and use them in Central Luzon as a unit.
The children and Meldy had a crying bee on their not attending the Ising party (after lunch) at the dining table ending in our bedroom where we had a frank grievance session.
Ka Erdy’s [Eraño Manalo] birthday party at 8:30 PM after golf with Amante Bigornia and Maning Salak. The announcement of the [p.4] Iglesia [ni Kristo] support had certainly helped turn the tide but there are doubts as to whether they actually helped at the last minute or just kept neutral. They actually were a sly and cunning lot.
MALACAÑANG