Monday
The weather is much better. Slight rain and the flood in Tarlac up north have reached.
Played golf in the mud. Caught the sniffles. And attended to all the interviews.
MacArthur of the Los Angeles Times, (he took the place of Jack Fosie), Arthur Zaih of Newsweek and Leon Daniels of UPI [United Press International].
On the question of how the reforms that I have started which will take generations to accomplish can be accomplished and how I hope to reconcile the pervasive sentiments of utang na loob and compadrazco which oppose the sentiments of nationhood or noncorruption.
So I spoke of generating and maintaining the passion we feel for our country and one nation.
So the need for national identity which will keep our passion for the national good aflame even when I am gone.
Thus the search for national identity a search that will move our people together.
So the observance with culture, tradition, history, the tracing of our ancient roots of origin—the barangays that originated our tribes and towns.
Not just the national identity search that reflects the guilty conscience of those elite Filipinos who have acquired a western manner and lost their roots. But the search for self by the common man—by all.
And so folk arts—and the ancient traditions. Common perhaps. But ours.
And a cause of national pride and dignity. For it is Philippine.
Succession—was the common question.
If anything untoward happens to me, then there would be a state of emergency—a council would take over pending a choice by the legislative council or election by the barangays of the permanent leader.
The military leaders have agreed to this.
[Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] and [Jose] Diokno—cases pending in the Supreme Court.
The Mindanao situation.