I did not send this— December31, 1971 Dear Hans, I could not help writing you on the Bulletin. It has graduated to the yellow journalism of the Manila Times. It concocts (and I use the word advisedly) a supposed order from me to some fictitious Foreign Affairs post or...

Official Gazette for December 31, 1971: AS THE YEAR comes to end, President Marcos flew early in the morning from Baguio City to Laoag City in Ilocos Norte, his home province, for the traditional reunion with relatives and friends. Accompanied by Leyte Gov. Benjamin...

It has been raining intermittently since yesterday. The planes could not land this morning at Loakan airport (except for the PNB [Philippine National Bank] plane piloted by Capt. Gamboa) and on my instruction they did not force a landing but proceeded to San Fernando...

Tonight we attended the Open House of U.S. Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Byroade at the Embassy Residence in Baguio—at 8:00 PM up to 9:30 PM. I then met the Baguio City officials. Then the Board of Investments which is here on a regional conference with businessmen. The...

Just arrived from Vincent Recto’s house where we had dinner. We brought Max Goldberger, [Antonio] Tony Raquiza and Alex Rothchild with us. After dinner at 9:00 PM, we had a heavily intellectual discussion on everything specially the natural science-social science gap,...

Official Gazette for December 28, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS, in a tape-recorded speech aired over three radio stations “in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, appealed to the people of the province to forget political differences.

I could not land in Vigan because of the rain that started early in Ilocos Sur although it was clear in Baguio. It started to rain in La Union at about 9:15 when we were at the airfield at San Fernando deciding whether to proceed to Vigan or not. We took off from...

10:15 PM Baguio We flew to Baguio at 9:20 AM having been delayed by the various unfinished problems in the office: The sudden death of Sec. Amadeo Cruz of Health. I had to indicate that Under Sec. [Clemente] Gatmaitan had to take over temporarily. I would like to...

The Christmas Dinner last night was well attended by both the Romualdez and the Marcos clans—more than a hundred from the old married ones to the babes in arms. The usual Official Gazette for December 25, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS did not received any callers. Christmas...

The Eve of Christmas Cabinet meeting up to 3:30 PM this afternoon. This will be the last meeting for the year. We received the progress of the year. The Secretary of Finance, the Governor of the Central Bank and the Economic Planners (Gerry [Gerardo] Sicat of NEC...