8:30 AM Off Zamboanga City on board the 777 before landing Comparatively pleasant trip. Slight swells and a driving rain at about 8:45 PM last night. Sen. Benigno Aquino, in undisguised relish predicts revolution in the Philippines. Writing in an article “Youth in...
1972
June 21, 1972
Arrived at Cagayan de Oro at 8:00 AM. Woke up at 5:00 AM. Read Three Faces of Fascism by Ernst Nolte (Prolix, strained, belabored and pedantic). Went back to bed at 7:20 and slept for another thirty minutes. Briefing by Gen. [Antonio] Venades, 4th Division Commander...
June 20, 1972
9:35 PM On board the 777 After Ulot and between Leyte and Samar and southward to Cagayan de Oro Left Tacloban at 7:30 PM and were at Ulot, Tolosa at about 8:40. Weather is fair but there are already some smells although we have not yet passed Samar that screens our...
June 19, 1972
Woke up at 5:30 AM but went back to bed still feeling a little weak from the cold. Woke up again at 6:30 with Imelda but we went back to bed although the sea was inviting—“Now is the time to go water skiing,” Imelda said. I was not up to it. But when I woke up at 8:00...
June 18, 1972
Written June 19th, Monday evening at the “Ulot Intercon”— Woke up at 10:00 AM. Mass at 12:00 AM. Arrived at Canauag pilot Station at 2:00 PM (24 hours from Manila) and a[t] Tacloban at 4:15 PM although we had to stop at the San Juanico Bridge to allow our arrival at...
June 17, 1972
Written at the new Big Cabana referred to as Ulot Intercon We left Manila at 2:00 PM. The matters for June 17th are included in pp. 2139 to 2142. [i.e. second half of June 16, 1972 entry] Exercised rather heavily with my dumb-bells and jogged in place in my study on...
June 16, 1972
3:00 AM June 17th Moslem leaders from Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte pledged loyalty to me—“'even if you declare yourself dictator.” 24 mayors out of 28 of Lanao del Sur and 10 mayors out of 19 of Lanao del Norte under Cong. [Mohammad] Ali and Macacuna Dimaporo and...
June 15, 1972
I explained to them that the less it is made to appear that they are protecting the First Lady and the less she is mentioned the better. But a quiet, unobtrusive effort must be made to build up her defense by an open defense of the delegates. The Concon...
June 14, 1972
Libingan Ng Mga Bayani—Wreath laying on the Unknown Soldier’s Tomb after the mass for President [Carlos] Garcia. Bessang Pass Day. Then breakfast at Fort Bonifacio and the inauguration of the Armed Forces Museum at the Supply Center at Fort Aguinaldo. T.J.[S.] George...
June 13, 1972
The Senate has rejected (at 10:30 PM) the Roxas appeal to the Senate of the Committee on Judiciary decision to suspend the investigation of the [Eduardo] Quintero raid by a 10-10 vote with Sen. Magnolia Antonio abstaining, [Alejandro] Almendras voting against (after I...