Golf with the Mindanao leaders at Pangarap at 8:00 AM. [Alejandro] Landring Almendras, [Mohammad] Ali Dimaporo, Cong. Lorenzo Sarmiento, Gov. Mandangan Dimacuta, Mayor Omar Dianatan. The oath-taking of radio commentators who want time. But [Benigno] Ninoy Aquino [Jr.]...

Dinner for Rear Admiral and Mrs. Draper Kauffman. Awarded him the Phil. Legion of Honor with Degree of Commander. Nice couple. Foreign Policy Council Meeting at 8:30 AM for the report of the delegation to the Djakarta conference. We decided to send humanitarian aid...

Have just played golf and had a massage at Bongbong’s room. Exercised as I was feeling tense and uneasy. Worked out for about an hour jogging and hitting about a hundred balls. Met with CINCPAC [Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command] Admiral [John] McCain [Jr.] who...

Have just come from the birthday dinner of [Teresita] Tessie Yulo. She is now 39 but she stopped counting like her contemporaries at 26 (according to her). Saw the KBS [Kanlaon Broadcasting System] rebroadcast of my press interview at 8:00 in color (up to past 9:00...

[Esteban] Cabanos testified last night in the company of Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile and they released him after seven hours of confinement which is illegal as the Senate did not ratify this decision of the special committee and the special committee did not have the...

Have just scolded Sen. [Leonardo] Leonie Perez, Sen. Pres. Gil Puyat and Sen. Pres. Pro Tempore Jose Roy for allowing or ordering Phil. Veterans’ Bank President Esteban Cabanos to be jailed for contempt for refusing to reveal the bank deposit balances in the American...

Woke up at the 777 at 9:00 AM, exercised and heard mass at 10:30 to 11:00 then left by car to Baguio with Cong. [Jose] Aspiras, [Joaquin] Ortega [Jr.] and Gov. [Juvenal] Guerrero with me in my car. Reached Baguio at 12:40 PM. Met by Mayor [Luis] Lardizabal at the city...

I write this only tonight as the trip by boat last night was rough and I went to sleep at 11:00 PM. We started from Pier 15 at 8:15 and arrived at the San Fernando pier at 9:45 PM today. Outside the breakwater we were on a SE course with the wind form the North so we...

Official Gazette for May 16, 1970: President Marcos had a series of speaking engagements which kept him out of Malacañang most of the day. In the morning the President left for Fernando Air Base in Lipa City, where he was guest of honor and speaker at the graduation...

Bongbong and Miguelito came back at about 12:00 AM with the following bag: one deer, one duck and eleven fish (big ones, one carp and several bass more than one foot long) Official Gazette for May 15, 1970: President Marcos motored to the Manila International Airport...