Worked on the Progressive Car Manufacturing bidding with [Vicente] Ting Paterno.
He also asked to be allowed to resign and put up a business after November. I told him that I expect disorder which may end up with the communists trying to grab power by violence or legal means. The Armed Forces would not allow this. So they would in turn take over the government and may call on me or anybody else to set up a dictatorship.
In lieu of this we should allow the parliamentary form of government to be adopted although I have my misgivings about the appropriateness for our people now. Thus I could continue as head of government (Prime Minister) legally.
And I would need all the good men to run government.
So he stays but he can train someone to become chairman in lieu of him.
The Navy Compound burned last night with P2 million damage. Under suspicious circumstances.
In the press interview this afternoon, I announced that we are assessing the pattern of arson occurring in the country.
And that I am asking for an updated report on the state of Public Order.
There have been too many fires of non-accidental origin in the country lately.
In Samar and Leyte, seven Catholic schools have been burned.
Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile reports that Ilocos Sur is peaceful.
Official Gazette for April 11, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS spent the day on desk work and in the process submitted to the Commission on Appointments the nominations of 39 officials in the Office of the Solicitor General. All the proposed appointments were promotional, and were approved on recommendation of the Secretary of Justice.
In the evening, the President administered the oath of office to Solicitor General Felix Antonio as associate justice of the Supreme Court in a ceremony held at Malacañang. Justice Antonio fills the position vacated by Associate Justice Arsenio P. Dizon, who has retired.
Present at the induction were the First Lady, Imelda R. Marcos; justices of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals headed by Chief Justice Roberto Conception and Presiding Justice Salvador V. Esguerra, respectively; Secretary of Justice Vicente Abad Santos, Mrs. Natividad J. Antonio and children and other relatives and friends of the inductee.
Russ Volckman, Ed Ramsey, Don Blackburn, Gen. [Hugh] Casey and the ladies of all except Ed who came alone had merienda, a tour of the palace and bade goodbye this afternoon.