Dear Irene, the Vet, now promoted to Med.

Our basic strategy with respect to Malaysia is to impress her with our credible defense posture and capability. Thus the announcement on Phil. Air Force Day of the plan to increase our armed forces first to 100,000 then to 256,000. I did not announce that including...

(My Birthday) The cry of happiness of two of the poorest families in Cabasan, Masantol, Pampanga when they started to look into the envelopes I had left with them as a gift and I had left their house to cross the waters surrounding their shack—was one of the best...

Official Gazette for September 6, 1974: THE PRESIDENT ordered the release of P10 million from the calamity fund to speed up the rehabilitation of fishpond and fishpen projects devastated by the recent floods. Most of the outlay will go to the purchase of fingerlings...

I have decided to open the channel of communication and negotiation with the Muslim rebels specially the Moro National Liberation Front through my old guerilla soldier, Isidro Saceda, the son of a Lebanese father who has been staying in Jolo since the presidential...

I have agreed to a press statement and an aide memoire prepared by Dr. [Mohammad Hassan] El Tohamy I enclose these documents prepared during the morning meeting with Sec. [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.] but corrected by me 5:00 to 7:40 PM before Tohamy’s departure at 8:20...

What is the truth about the raid on the Novitiate of the Sacred Heart at Novaliches? Was there any basis for the raid? The truth is that there was reason to mid the Novitiate as Father Blanco even before Martial Law had been advocating revolution. Four participants in...

Archbishop Jaime Sin and Cardinal [Julio] Rosales met with me this morning. Archbishop Sin was almost apologetic for his almost condemnatory letter which will be read in the churches and in the vigil at 3:00 PM tomorrow. But I am disappointed in him. He has merely...

As I suspected Father [Jose] Blanco sought some more publicity by refusing to be released. PC [Philippine Constabulary] Chief MGen. [Fidel] Ramos did right by refusing to humour him—but courteously so. Because as he explained he had his orders to release him. Father...

Called Father Jose Blanco to Malacañang with Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile, Gens. [Fidel] Ramos, [Fabian] Ver and [Prospero] Olivas to convince him to work for our reforms and support the government. He was agreeable and stated that he would ask that government agents...