The bedroom is topsy-turvy from the children horsing around with me looking like a clown with a thinking cap (badly fitted, too small) on the head, a shirt too long for me both from Bongbong and clowning to beat the circus while Imelda presides over the unlikely...
Marcos Diaries
July 15, 1971
Some senior officers of the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] are supposed to be concerned that we adopted, in the National Security Council, the decision to request Nationalist China to leave Itu Aba, a decision they consider precipitate and unwise because we do...
July 14, 1971
It is indeed a galling and frustrating situation to be a small and weak nation begging from both ally and former enemy—the U.S. and Japan. The thought is not ennobling that we survive upon the philanthrophy [sic] of other Official Gazette for July 14, 1971: President...
July 13, 1971
Ambassador [Henry] Byroade has just called me by telephone to tell me that his information is to the effect that “we may wake up tomorrow with bad news about sugar.” Some members of the committee in the US Senate (Finance under Sen. Russell Long) have come up Official...
July 12, 1971
What we have fearing about the fast developing international events in Asia spawning Official Gazette for July 12, 1971: President Marcos called upon the world’s institutions of learning to take the initiative in the promotion of “human brotherhood and peace among...
July 11, 1971
Imee and Irene arrived by PAL [Philippine Air Lines] at 8:45 PM from Bangkok and London. Irene is taller but slimmer. Imee is prettier and more confident. Both are fairer and more demonstrative. They apparently have minds of their own. Pugger (Snow white), Sue Ann and...
July 10, 1971
National Security Council (with Congs. Ramon Mitra, Jr., House Minority Floor Leader and Carmelo Barbero, senior opposition member of the House Committees of Foreign Affairs and National Defense) met on the Spratley Islands case at 11: AM at the fort Aguinaldo...
July 9, 1971
I have just finished a working session on the book I am writing, “The New Revolution”. After this book I am organizing a commission to document and research for the materials for the book I will write of the story of the Philippine political, social and economic...
July 8, 1971
I am now busy settling conflicts on the candidacies for governor, mayor and even senator. One of the last is that of Sen. A[lejandro] Almendras. He is playing hard to get, saying he does not want to run. But I know he does. What he wants is for me to promise financial...
July 7, 1971
Last night at 7:00 PM, at the instance of the Solicitor General, the Supreme Court issued a restraining order against the oil companies to restrain them from raising their prices before the Oil Industry Commission considers the matter and holds the hearings required...