Sec. Juan Ponce Enrile, I direct you to prepare a decree then declare illegal, and authorize the government to take over, the ownership and operation of motor boats less than a hundred feet in size with a speed in excess of twenty knots an hour. Those used for lawful...

Wednesday Can we create a new form of government—a new political concept—that guarrantees [sic] effective leadership or authority that can adequately meet a crisis of any kind but at the same time is not or cannot turn tyrannical or oppressive but must be benevolent...

Pres. Panfilo Domingo, I am disturbed by the attached news that EEC [European Economic Council] has bought 5 years supply of sugar at $360 per ton or .1609 cents (US) per pound. I have issued orders to sell our sugar only on a five-year contract for at least 24 cents...

Sec. Juan Ponce Enrile, My orders were to court-martial even the enlisted men who are charged with torture in the 1st PC [Philippine Constabulary] Zone. I notice that they were merely separated from the service. Since serious crimes were commited they must be...

Monday Fatal plane crash of a PAL [Philippine Airlines] AVRO. 31 dead 5 crew members 26 passengers. One survivor an American. I have directed that the Armed Forces of the Philippines now increase its capability for: Ground operations to push out the rebels from towns...

Amb. [William] Sullivan and the State Dept.’s impression that the Aide Memoire left by Sec. Alex [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.] with Sec. of Defense [James] Schlesinger was an invocation of the Mutual Defense Pact by the Philippines. I told him point blank that this was...

In the future the question will be asked why has President Marcos, who was unashamedly and openly pro-American, fought beside American soldiers in World War II and in the underground, sent Filipino troops to Korea as a member of Congress, supported the Pacific charter...

Since my last entry in my diary last July, the month has been marked by dramatic events that dwelt on the change of course of our history. Today I received a letter from Al Caluang, or Benjamin Caluang, whose full name is AL-HUSSEIN CALUANG Y [JUADRAIN?] who carried...

Jack Anderson, the muckracking columnist has come out with a third column alleging I have doubled the $50,000 offered bribe to Primitivo Mijares to stop him from testifying and to recant his testimony in the U.S. Congress. I have had to dictate a personal cable to...

The wily old man, Eugenio Lopez Sr., who has been the brains of the Lopez empire that led the rightist coup d’etat against the Republic and incidentally against me (if the clan had succeeded in eliminating me, his brother, Vice President Fernando Lopez, would have...