I have been working on the final version of my book The Democratic Revolution. It does not yet meet my standards but it is getting more precise and clear. It will end up as a justification for government to recover the leadership of the revolution. I also met Mayor...

The surrender of [Ricardo] de la Camara was sought to be negotiated by his wife whom Cong. Rafael Aquino brought to me this morning. Ordered Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile and Gen. [Eduardo] Garcia to handle it. When the Chinese War College students of 36 came to pay a call...

Have been busy attending to the preparations for the campaign—the films, audio­visual units, printed materials etc. And tonight the source of funds. There are less contributions now than in 1969. The Cavite provincial committee headed by Sen. Helena Benitez insist...

We have convinced Sen. [Wenceslao] Lagumbay to accept the decision of the Executive Committee for Manda [Manuel] Elizalde [Jr.] who reimbursed his alleged expenses of P50,000. He will accept the secretaryship of Labor after his senatorial term ends December 31st this...

Have just forced through a resolution in the Screening Committee of 11 men to draft all the senatorial candidates so us to give Sens. [Alejandro] Almendras and [Dominador] Aytona a reason to get out of their three man all-for-one-and-one-for-all alleged agreement with...

1:35 AM Talaga Bay After I came up to the beach house from water skiing, I received the message from Gen. [Manuel] Yan that our minesweeper (frigate) PS 70 which is off Northeast Cay at the Ligao-Pagasa group off Palawan, for Capt. Brown the Marines commander to land...

Mrs. Leonila Garcia has finally decided to accept the offer of the Nacionalista Party of a slot in the senatorial ticket. But she made me promise (and so did the children Nanding [Fernando Campos] (the in law) and Linda Campos) that we would undertake to support her...

Imelda is being drafted by the unanimous vote of the Executive Committee in tonight’s meeting at [Bahay] Pangarap. But we should not expose her now. We should hold her in reserve for the presidential elections of 1973 or 1975. In the senate she would be baited and...

Messy time bringing Beth [Elizabeth Marcos-Keon] and Mrs. [Manuela] Ablan together. Beth like the irascible and high strung girl that she is started to quarrel with Mrs. Ablan on how poorly she was running the provincial government. And I did not have the time to work...

10:00 PM While watching the rerun of the Ali-Ellis fight which we saw at Sen. Roy’s house from Round 4 as the Directorate meeting could not start until the fight was over— Upon the motion of the Senate President [Gil] Puyat, the Directorate gave me the powers of the...