7:30 PM— As I wait for Imelda fixing up the palace for the children due to arrive (next Official Gazette for December 5, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS had a day free of the usual callers but buckled down to desk work and other important state business. Among other actions,...

Official Gazette for December 4, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS presided over the initial meeting in the morning of the reinvigorated Development Council. During the meeting, the body decided to continue with the program of a balanced agro-industrial economy so that...

Written at the State Dining Room where Imelda was entertaining her old classmates I devoted the morning to basic economic policies and decisions: The floating of Asian Dollar Bonds. Organization of the cement manufacturers into a coordinated group to prevent the...

Official Gazette for December 2, 1971: AMONG the first visitors to Malacañang was Secretary of Foreign Affairs Carlos P. Romulo, who arrived from the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting held in Kuala Lumpur from November 25–27. Secretary Romulo submitted to the President...

I have just brought Gov.-elect Faustino Dy, accompanied by Sen. Leonardo Perez, and Gov. Tomas Diaz, CG [Commanding General] of Task Force Lawin together so that they can cooperate on the campaign against the NPA [New People’s Army]. He denies having met Commander...

We finished dinner for the International Theater Institute headed by Rosamond Gilder with [Dar Cante?], as Sec. Gen. Imelda delivered an elegant speech and launched the book on the history of the Philippine Theater. Then met Gov. Carmeling Crisologo, Tony Villanueva,...

Breakfast for Gen. and Mrs. Partridge who was battalion commander of the 1st Cavalry that liberated Manila and is now head of the US National Rural Cooperative Association. They played hosts to Imelda on her visit to Washington last year. I lent them a PAF [Philippine...

2:30 PM Nov. 29th Mr. John Wendell Anderson and his wife, Lisa with Mrs. Susie Gardner were brought by Tony Florendo and Alan Foran to the palace at 10:30 AM and they stayed till about 12:00 AM. Tony and I talked later of the Tadeco [Tagum Agricultural Development...

The other day (Nov. 24th) Enriquito Zobel came to see me to report to me that he had been invited by Mrs. Pacita Roces to a luncheon at the Lighthouse on top of the Meralco [Manila Electric Company] building. It lasted from 12:30 to 4:00 PM. I attach the notes of my...

I have approved the adoption of the communique or declaration by the Foreign Ministers in Kuala Lumpur. I attach the folder of papers to Envelope No. XII. The Foreign Policy Council meeting for today I postponed to tomorrow so that we could have something definite...