11:00 PM Ozamis City A very eventful day. Historic and hectic. We have been able to get Gov. [Arsenio] Quibranza and Vice Gov. [Malamit] Umpa to withdraw in favor of General [Wilfredo] Encarnacion who will now enter the political field. This agreement was signed...

Spent the whole day on board. We are now between Negros and Cebu. At about 1:00 PM we should reach the southern end of Cebu and Negros and be at the Mindanao Sea to be at Iligan (IISMI [Iligan Integrated Steel Mills Inc.] pier) at 7:30 AM. Dictated the outline for the...

Looks like the House version of the sugar act in the US will be adopted by the conference committee. This piece of good news was conveyed to me by Ambassador [Ramon] Nolan by long distance telephone at 8:00 AM. I have ordered that he now work on the World Sugar Quota...

9:00PM While waiting for dinner with Imelda who is at the Music room with Sen. Teves and his bilas Ex. Sec. Ututalum. Worked out a solution to the problem of Lanao del Norte where apparently the old Ilongo company the 543 PC Coy [Philippine Constabulary Company] which...

Dear Imee, My sweet adorable scramble-brained eldest daughter who claims the temperament of a prima donna and the objectivity of an Oxford Don, you have just written one of the most touching letters in the history of the generation gap. We read it while we were having...

We have Dir. Gen. Wilfred Jenks of the ILO [International Labor Organiztion] as our house guest and we have just come from the dinner we gave in his honor wherein he delivered a long discourse on the problems of Asia a la Gunnar Myrdal. In 1915 when Pres. [Manuel]...

1:15 AM Sept. 21, 1971 We spent the whole morning with [Francisco] Kits Tatad, Johnny Perez, [Juan] Johnny Tuvera, Adrian Cristobal, [Mauro] Malang [Santos], Ronny [Rony V.] Diaz, Munding Reyes, [Eu]Logio Balao, Ileana Maramag and [Roberto] Bobby Benedicto on the...

Kamp of the New York Times has again misquoted me on Imelda’s running in 1973. He misquotes me as saying [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] (Ninoy) is a communist which I did but with the explanation that he is not an ideologue but a supporter, funder and armer which is just as...

There are several thoughts that have nagged and bothered me for the past several days. The media—With the possible exception of Bulletin and Herald, they are still bowing to the communist and the radical propaganda line—Everything Marcos does is wrong. The communists...

This morning I ordered the drafting of two proclamations for the gradual lifting of the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus—one for the Visayas and Ilocos down to Pangasinan, Batangas, Catanduanes, Masbate, Marinduque, Romblon, the two Mindoros...