Marcos Diaries

June 10, 1972

Am feeling a little heavy and weak. Slight nasal congestion. Must be a cold. Muscle coordination below normal in golf game this morning at 8:30 AM instead of 7:00 AM as agreed. So slept a long nap 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Woke up still feeling woozy. But went to P. Guevara...

June 9, 1972

National Security Council meeting at 8:00 AM. Woke up to 8:00 AM. Sta. Mesa was flooded. So I was late, arrived at 8:40 AM. And we started at 8:45 AM up to 11:45 AM. Not much questioning on the Moscow agreements and the [Richard] Nixon-[Leonid] Brezhnev conferences....

June 8, 1972

Sen. [Salvador] Doy Laurel was ousted by the Senate Committee on Justice (8-5) which decided not to investigate the [Eduardo] Quintero case inasmuch as the Supreme Court has acquired jurisdiction of the bribery case and the issuance of the search warrant. He has...

June 7, 1972

I have asked Sen. Pres. [Gil] Puyat to help unite the party if he and the others are interested in running for president. And they are now going to call conferences for this. As I predicted Sens. [Arturo] Tolentino, [Ambrosio] Padilla, [Emmanuel] Pelaez, [Lorenzo]...

June 6, 1972

Met the Executive Committee of the National Security Council at 11:00 AM on the agenda for the Friday National Security Council meeting. Worked on the papers in my study. Talked to Sen. Jose Roy on party matters. We now must choose the man to develop for national...

June 5, 1972

1:00 PM June 6, 1972 Imelda came back to the palace at 10:30 AM. I pushed her in a wheelchair to the ground floor and on to the big Cadilac [sic] and up the small elevator to our quarters. But again on a wheelchair to Suite I. She is still suffering pains from...

June 4, 1972

I have just answered a letter of Concon [Constitutional Convention] President [Diosdado] Macapagal wherein he asks whether I or Imelda are running for President in 1972. I wrote him through Kits [Francisco] Tatad that neither Imelda or I intend to run—I because I am...

June 3, 1972

We brought Imelda to the hospital at 7:00 AM. She went direct to the operating room. Drs. Quintin Gomez and Dr. Paciencia Escalin Dicini anaesthetized her by 7:40 AM when Dras. [Gloria] Aragon and Isidro started the D and C (Dilatation and Curettage) the removal of...

June 2, 1972

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 ailing...

June 1, 1972

Imelda lost her baby at about 3:30 PM. She stated having pains this morning. An internal examination showed that the uterus was larger than before the pregnancy and the cervix was not open. But without her noticing it, she expelled the placenta and the body when she...