Saturday Played golf with Russ Volckman and his wife Helen, and Helen Cu- Unjieng at 9:00 AM to 11:45 AM at the Manila Golf Club. Then Imelda picked me up for the meeting of the International Veterans and the World War II veterans where I was guest speaker at 12:00...
1972
June 2, 1972
Friday Imelda is suffering from pain and from a deep sense of loss and sorrow for the abortion about which I have told her. She feels inadequate and has been crying her eyes out. I have shed no tears for my unborn child but I have vowed that I shall cure this sick and...
April 5, 1972
Wednesday Breakfast for Mr. Kearns, President of the Export-Import Bank. MIA [Manila International airport] Copper-smelting The Phil. Legion of Honor for Rear Admiral George Muse, CINCPAC [Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet] representative and Commander of the US Naval...
March 24, 1972
Friday The [Rodolfo] Ganzon ambushers have been identified by the PC [Philippine Constabulary] and NBI [National Bureau of Investigation]. Talked to Imelda at about 12:00 AM [sic]. She is at Excelsior Hotel in Rome. Bongbong still ill in bed. They take the regular PAL...
March 31, 1972
Friday Spent the whole day quietly in the Mansion, reading and writing. Finished the books [B.F. Skinner] Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), [Barbara Tuchman] Still Well [Stillwell], [and] The American Experience in China (1971), [Herman Wouk] The Winds of War (1971),...
March 16, 1972
June [Ramon] Cruz [Jr.], GSIS [Government Service Insurance System], You should have at least acknowledged the Presidential decision to stop individual housing loans and utilize GSIS resources for massive low-cost housing in the Sunday Times magazine article. Because...
March 21, 1972
Patched up the differences of Com. [Baltazar] Aquino and Sec. David Consunji. The PJH is still under Com. Aquino. Met some of the lenders, Delegate Pacificador, Fiscal Joe Castillo (to trap that extortionist Crispin Reyes, who is trying extort money from Leo[nides]...
March 2, 1972 Wednesday
Imelda is going to Moscow, Spain and London. London to visit the children. We have some problems with Imee who insists on an acting career apparently. Her mother has a dim view of her insistence to accept the offer of the lead role in “The Diary of Anne Frank” to be...
February 23, 1972
Sec. J. [Juan] Ponce Gen. [Romeo] Espino Gen. [Rafael] Zagala There should be no farther constructions in the Fort Bonifacio area that has been set aside for sale or for use by the new MIA [Manila International Airport]. I notice some going on. F. E. Marcos [Signed]...
February 28, 1972 Sunday
We have just talked to the children by long distance. They seem to be standing up to the winter very well, coal strike, power strike and all notwithstanding. Bongbong has taken the career exams and he says that he has been told he did well and I will be written about...