We are still recovering from the shock of my eldest daughter deciding she will not have anymore of Assumption School but wishes to continue schooling in Tacloban. She finds she is in a rut and will end up ether a bitter activist motivated merely by hate or a part of...

We are in the President No. 777, to sleep in it and return to Manila to reach it at 8:00 AM Monday morning (this morning). Sunday morning I woke up at 8:00 AM and was water-skiing at about 9:00 to finish at 9:45 AM. Was at Balanga after a pleasant helicopter ride at...

We cast off from Pier 5 at 3:00 PM and rounded Cochinos Pt. into Talaga Bay at 5:00 PM. The low pressure area west of Mindoro has dissipated and the weather is good although the sky is overcast. The sea is calm and I took a nap after starting the book of [Albert...

Proctoscopy and systoscopy (that is nothing but an examination of the lower bowels [in my case up to 23 centimeters] with an instrument inserted through the anus to check ulceration from chronic amoebiasis or growth which may be benign or malignant) was [sic]...

Imelda and I went to Bicolandia by plane. I took the Fokker, she took Silverio’s Cessna-4. Distributed the first cement credit cards as well as the excess income tax credit advise [sic], the first to capitanes del barrio and the second to municipal mayors. GI...

We have been in a rush all day as we dispatched the Maligayang Pasko Motorcade to distribute gifts to the poor. Official Gazette for December 16, 1970: President Marcos had several conferences in the morning, with a break in between when he joined the First Lady, Mrs....

Dictated the outline of the State of the Nation Address next January. It will be a plan for reform. I have ordered the filing of a criminal case of smuggling against Congressman [Felipe] Azcuna. This should prove that there is a law that applies to all. And I have...

Our first day with Bongbong. Woke up late believing he would not be able to awake early but he had breakfast with the two girls before seven o’clock. Official Gazette for December 14, 1970: President Marcos, together with the First Lady, Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos and...

Bongbong has just arrived. His plane a [Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij]-PAL [Philippine Air Lines] DC-8 on direct flight from Amsterdam touched down at about 3:00 PM. A sizeable crowd with the usual palace friends and their children were there to greet him. The...

Bongbong must be on his way home by KLM [Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij]-PAL [Philippine Air Lines] by now. We are busy preparing for his arrival. I hit a one over par 73 in Wack Wack this morning teeing off at 6:45 AM and finishing at 11:00 AM. We started out on...