Office of the President of the Philippines Manila No matter what anyone says, what we have done—to announce our desire to take over the bases has antagonized the Americans. Cong. [Donald] Fraser’s statements on the alleged absence of civil rights as well as that there...
Rizal Day celebration. More and more I find it difficult to admire [Jose] Rizal the intellectual who compromised and whined and begged to be the hero I can worship. Specially since he was chosen and built up by an American, Gov. Gen. Howard Taft. As I wrote in the...
Cabinet, Security Council, Neda [National Economic Development Authority], General Staff and Military Council Meeting on the agreement to settle the Mindanao conflict peacefully. No Official Gazette entry for this day.
Lunch conference with the governors and mayors of the 13 provinces affected by the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] agreement with Sec. [Jose] Roño and Sol. Gen Estellito Mendoza. Some problems have come up. If the plebiscite is all over the 13 provinces, all of...
Press conference at 11:30 am on the need to hold a plebiscite to determine which of the 13 provinces wanted to be included in the Muslim Regional government. No Official Gazette entry for this day.
Another project that I have started is getting close to Chief Minister Harris Saleh of Sabah. I have assigned Engineer Rodolfo Cuenca of CDCP [Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines] to this. Last night he attended the dinner at Malacañan and...
I have misgivings, still about Minister Ali Treki. He changed some of the provisions of the agreement when we were not looking. I hope these are only instances of oversight not malicious attempts at foisting a humiliating and one sided agreement on us. It may be...
USec. [Carmelo] Barbero called me up at 5:00 AM Manila time to inform me they have signed the ceasefire communique and are about to initial the agreement in general. I told him to befriend Nur Misuari and to establish a line of communication with him so that we can...