On board Ang Pangulo
I feel tired and tense. So I have left the family behind on a fishing and water skiing week-end.
The weather is perfect. Practically no wind. The coves especially Looc Cove are like polished glass. Never been as calm as now.
And we caught an unusual number of fish off Hormus Point, Lapulapu, two of which are 2½ feet long and about fifty pounds each. And many others.
Slept from 10 [AM]-12 AM [sic] on the way to Looc then skied all afternoon.
Imelda is down with some bug. I guess it is a viral infection. But tonight when I called up by long distance at about 10:00 PM she and the children were in the Araneta Coliseum attending the Cocoy Laurel concert.
[Richard] Nixon’s resignation was expected but his actual resignation marks the enthronement of a new tyranny in America—the dictatorship of the media.
For Nixon may have been guilty of cover-up and dishonesty like the sale of ambassadorships, but given the American politics requirements, this did not warrant his being hounded out of office. For that is exactly what happened.
And the impeachment process was a national exercise of hypocrisy—the attempt of the guilty to wash themselves clean.
And the scapegoat was Nixon.
Official Gazette for August 3, 1974: PROMOTIONS for 1,616 officers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, ranking from full colonel down to first lieutenant, were approved by the President. These promotions were based on recommendations of various AFC promotions boards with favorable endorsements by the AFP chief of staff and the secretary of national defense. The President said that the qualifications and fitness of officers recommended by the boards for promotion but whose names are not included in the released list, are still being studied and evaluated.
DEPARTMENT of Finance said that P57.4 million worth of Premyo savings bonds was sold by the Securities Servicing Department of the Central Bank during its first day of public offering held last August 1. The brisk sale of the bonds was mainly attributed to the enthusiastic response of the people on the new government savings program. The CB reported that the biggest buyers were the commercial banks which, in turn, will sell these bonds to their clients or individual buyers.