Worked on the studies of Australian Investments and why they succeeded in attracting them up to 2:30 AM as I could not sleep since I have been missing Imelda intensely. Official Gazette for October 1, 1970: President Marcos defined the challenge of the seventies to...

Dear Bongbong, I am happy that you are doing well in your new school. I know that removed from the restricting confines of the Palace and our well-meaning friends you would blossom out into an independent character and create a new personality of talent and...

I write this before I go to attend the testimonial dinner for the 25th year of government service of my Vice President who has been called quite varied names like “nincompoop,” “dullard,” “blockhead,” “ fence-sitter,” “segurista,” weakling and worse. He is indeed the...

Official Gazette for September 29, 1970: President Marcos conferred with representatives of national and local law enforcement agencies operating in the Greater Manila area and received a number of callers which included provincial delegations. In between his paper...

I was awakened by a telephone call from Imelda now in New York at 7:30 AM. She suggests that Sec. of Commerce [Ernesto] Maceda be sent to the United Nations to work out trade with the leaders of the various states now attending the 25th anniversary of the UN. So I am...

I write this as we are seeing a movie. Have just had a massage while posing for Sculptor [Florante] Caedo. Went to the other side and played around with the children, hit a few golf balls, fed Abonazir, Urduja and Kitten some sugar cubes and went to see the dogs in...

Imelda is in New York and we cannot get her for another hour and a half. We are going to bed early as we woke up early this morning. Met all the mayors of Sulu, Camarines Norte and Nueva Vizcaya, the latter also devastated by the last typhoon Pitang. Then met Gen....

As usual there are many comments about the pleasant treatment we have given to Commanders Sumulong [Faustino del Mundo], Zaragosa [Avelino Bagsik] and Legaspi—bringing them to the palace to be fawned over by the media specially television. But I know what I am doing....

Settled the demonstrations in Davao del Norte by releasing 8,200 hectares of public land for settlement at Laac, Asuncion and ordering the Under Sec. of Agriculture Official Gazette for September 24, 1970: President Marcos, in a welcome break in presidential routine,...

Imelda has practically shocked Pres. [Richard] Nixon and [Henry] Kissinger into doing something for the Philippines by informing them in candid words that the Philippines will be lost to the U.S. if she does not help. So now the White House is in a state of agitation...