Imelda and I start our new project today the 21st. Gave a dinner and interview to Jack Anderson the syndicated columnist, formerly partner of the late Drew Pearson. Showed them and gave samples [of] the pearls we are producing in Guian, Samar, tektite jewelry and some...

Have just arrived form the wedding of [Francisco] Kits Tatad at Greenhills Church and reception at Intercontinental. Well attended by newspaper people including those who do not wish us well. Received the letter of Nonong signed Manuel L. Quezon Jr., expressing...

Imelda went alone to Quezon Province on [Manuel] Quezon’s birthday celebration and as usual was mobbed by the people in the five towns she visited with Sen. Pres. Pro Tempore Jose Roy. Speculations will continue snowballing about her running for President after me....

Sen. Dominador Aytona, chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate, is apparently trying to blackmail me into further financing the IISMI [Iligan Integrated Steel Mills, Inc.] of which he is Ex-Vice President and legal counsel, to the prejudice of the government...

Opened the Seminar on Youth Development initiated by the National Science Development Board chairman, Gen. [Florencio] Medina, and asked for an integrated Youth Development Program drafted systematically and scientifically by professionals with both local and...

Posed for Florante Caedo, the young sculptor, from 10:00-12:00, for a bust from the life mask he made of me last Friday night. Imelda will be next. I will pose for him again Tuesday night. Imelda visited Nini [Zenaida Quezon-Avanceña] this afternoon with Dr. Estefania...

The Korean government through Ambassador Kim Se Ryun presented this afternoon on their national day their own art of self-defense the Taewok-Don [Taekwondo] at the Maharlika Hall and not at the lawn in [Bahay] Pangarap because it rained. Opened the NPC [National Power...

Played five holes of tolerable golf in [Bahay] Pangarap at 6:00-7:00 notwithstanding the vertigo and congested nose. Feel good. Oil has been struck in an offshore drilling off Brunei on a shelf that extends towards Sulu and Palawan. So there is excitement about the...

Official Gazette for August 13, 1970: President Marcos was guest of honor at the ceremonies launching National Language Week, held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City. Before and after that engagement, the President worked on...

I write on the new stationery ordered by Imelda, guaranteed not to disintegrate in ten years as ordinary bond paper is supposed to. Met with the leaders of both houses of Congress on the priority listing of bills to be approved in the third special session set Sept....