2:00 AM December 16th We agreed to start diplomatic and trade relations with Romania and Yugoslavia announcement to be made later (January 12th meeting) after we find out what the big powers do in the Indian-Pakistan conflict. The delay is upon the request of Pres....

I have been headlined by The Philippine Herald as charging the LP [Liberal Party] as pro­subversive. In the same front page, I like the picture of Bongbong and me inside the KLM [Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines)] 747 with me playfully...

Bongbong arrived by a giant Boeing 747 KLM [Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines)] aircraft capable of carrying 350 passengers and faster than the DC-8 at 3:50 PM. I stopped playing golf with Adm. [George] Muse, Amb. [Henry] Byroade and Maj. Gen....

7:30PM—Before we leave for the dinner at J. Antonio Araneta’s house The biggest legal victory my administration has had has electrified everyone. The unanimous decision on the suspension of the privilege of the writ has heartened all the men in the Armed Forces and in...

We have just now a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court upholding the validity of my proclamation suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus. It declared the existence of a rebellion by the communist party of the Philippines; it declared “we entertain...

Appeared before the businessman in the 2nd Forum on the Prospects of Business in 1972 under the auspices of Anacleto del Rosario and Gabriel Mañalac. Prospects for 1972 for business is better than the opportunities of 1971. Credit was used mostly by the private sector...

Met the American White House Fellows, the Italian Ambassador who donated $10,000 for the victims of Typhoon Yoling and the political leaders including Speaker Pro Temp Jose Aldeguer who was still bitter from the double cross by the Lopezes who had chosen Eber Calatan...

Official Gazette for December 8, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS, following a three hour meeting with the Foreign Policy Council that started at mid-morning, announced that the Philippines would adhere to a policy of “strict neutrality” in the India-Pakistan conflict. The...

The morning I spent in meeting the Norwegian labor experts, the Mexican economic mission, the cigarette manufacturers with Ralph Nubla, Com. of BIR [Bureau of Internal Revenue] [Misael] Vera, PVTA [Philippine Virginia Tobacco Administration] Gen. Man. [Federico]...

Conference on: The Free Trade Zone Nassco [National Shipyards and Steel Corporation] and the sale or lease of its property in the Free Trade Zone Reparations—How it can be used for the development program BOI [Board of Investments] registered industries that are not...