We clapped during and after the television show over Channel 9 (KBS [Kanlaon Broadcasting System] exclusive) of the trip of Imelda and Bongbong to Rome and England. We means the two girls and myself taking dinner at our breakfast nook in the living room from 9:00 to...

The talk of the town is still the capture of Commander Sumulong [Faustino del Mundo]. The Liberals are sour graping as usual, [Gerardo] Roxas and [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] insinuating that it was a rigged-up surrender and not a capture! They just want their names in the...

Have just come from the meeting with the senators and congressmen opposing the bills in the special session. Each one has his own private interest and demand. Nauseating! Went to Casiguran this morning. Left at 7:30 AM by PNB [Philippine National Bank] King Air....

Commander Sumulong (Faustino del Mundo) the head of the military arm of the Hukbo Mangpapalaya Ng Bayan was captured at the house of his common-in-law [sic] wife, Mang Sumang Gaña, at Hensonville, Angeles City at 6:00 o’clock this morning by the 10th BCT [Battalion...

Judge Simeon Ferrer of Tarlac has declared RA [Republic Act] 1700, the Anti-Subversion Law as unconstitutional in a resolution of the Motion to Quash of Nilo Tayag and Leoncio Co of the KM [Kabataang Makabayan] which reads like a scholarly Official Gazette for...

Opened the Asean Social Welfare Ministers Conference this morning. Offered to host a regional headquarters for social welfare and advance studies. Actually the UN [United Nations] has promised support for this project. Then met the Elizaldes who want to put up a...

Dear Bongbong, When I said goodbye to you I knew that I was saying goodbye to my only son—still a boy. For no matter how many times you may return home I have given you up to the world and its many cares. And you will soon be returning home no longer a boy. Do you...

Golf from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM at Fort Aguinaldo. Conference with Alfonso Lim of Taggatt Sawmills and Plywood at Claveria, Cagayan as well as Cong. [Roque] Ablan [Jr.] on Fuga Island 13,000 ha. with 4,000 heads of cattle and an airstrip of 1,300 meters, plenty of fresh...

There is a plan of the Kabataang Makabayan to kidnap American Ambassador Byroade, Jusmag [Joint US Military Assistance Group] Chief Gen. Pickett, US Aid [Agency for International Development] head Dr. Niblack and the USIS [United States Information Service] head....

I write this at 12:20 AM just as I entered my bedroom where my two daughters were lying in wait for me to wish me a happy birthday. Imee has written me an affectionate touching letter in the smallest hand I have seen in many a year and some books including The Little...