2:30 AM Actually written on the new year 1971 I am reviewing the contingency plan for the proclamation of martial law if the occasion demands it. This is OPLAN Bukang Liwayway. As we were gathered to await the new year, I was a little sad that I and all these...

The critical question of a bold and strong leadership to meet the threat of anarchy and a daring attempt to create a revolutionary situation has come up again. This was triggered by the bold raid by Lt. [Victor] Corpus of the PMA [Philippine Military Academy] armory...

A 1st Lt. Victor Corpus, a PMA [Philippine Military Academy] graduate but a leftist who had been under the influence of [Dante C.] Simbulan (another PMA graduate but a Red) at 1725 hrs. while incoming as officer of the day at PMA hogtied the armorer and two guards and...

We are at the lounging room of the ship after a light dinner. We have passed Buqui Pt. the northernmost point of Masbate and are south of Ticao and Burias proceeding northwest towards the south of Marinduque straight for the Batangas coast. Light seas, the ship...

We have just come from deck where Imelda insisted on staying as the ship started rolling, pitching and yawing in heavy seas. The children have stretched out to sleep in the deck lounging chairs finding the deck less conductive to sea-sickness. Last night 3/4 of the...

We woke up at about 9:00 AM. When I had taken breakfast, I was told that we were off Dao and had passed San Jose. I ordered the ship back so we could visit San Jose. Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] rounded up the government officials in his usual energetic manner. Gov....

I write this at 4:00 PM on board the 777 on the way to Iligan off Dao after a visit at San Jose 11:30-3:00 PM. Advance Party led by Kokoy returned with the governor at 1:00 PM. We were at the market place for a meeting at 2:00 PM We reached Sablayan at about 11:00 AM....

After the Media Noche we left the Palace for this ship. But with the waiting for the others like Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] and Juliette [Romualdez], we finally left at about 2:00 AM. The morning I devoted to golf, preparing gifts and seeing the sugar people on the...

We have all done our Christmas gift choosing. I asked Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] to buy some warm clothes in the United States for Bongbong: fur-lined boots, gloves and jackets—including a Coleman pressure heater, the latest shirts, trousers and belts (I have ordered...

Today was my family day. Spent the afternoon trying out our guns for the hunting trip to Sablayan, Mindoro Oriental on Christmas Day while the three girls of the family were spectators in the [Bahay] Pangarap side. Good-natured bantering all around like the...