Actually written in Malacañang at 11:00 PM April 6, 1971 I could not write my diary on April 5, 1971 as we were on board the 777 on the way to Gaang Wharf, Currimao, Ilocos Norte and the ship was pitching and gaining deeply preventing any kind of writing. We cast off...
Marcos Diaries
April 4, 1971
8:00 AM After breakfast before meditation at 8:45 In the meditation at the chapel from 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM, Father Cruz revealed that in Ateneo there have been instances where he has been publicly castigated by the students whom he had sacrificed for, encouraged and...
April 3, 1971
Reflections What is my central purpose in life? I am President. I am the most powerful man in the Philippines. All that I have dreamt of I have. More accurately, I have all the material things I want of life—a wife who is loving and is a partner in the things I do,...
April 2, 1971
11:30 PM At Mirador Retreat House in Baguio City A fire broke up in Bankusay, Tondo yesterday as we were coming into Manila Bay. Issued the standard instructions in case of calamities to the natural disaster center, the Red Cross, the SWD, Dept. of Health, National...
April 1, 1971
Father Mafalen, [Rev. Michael McPhelin, S.J] the Jesuit economist who is with us, when I asked him where he thought we were deficient in our economy, referred to two areas: The absence of an export bank to facilitate credit for buyers of our exports. The lack of...
March 31, 1971
PRESIDENT MARCOS and the First Lady, Imelda R. Marcos, together with their children Imee, Bongbong and Irene, visited historic Limasawa Island, Leyte, to attend the ceremonies commemorating the 450th anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in the Philippines. The...
March 30, 1971
We are anchored off Maasin after a very tumultuous and successful visit of Surigao and Dumagat. In the latter I spoke to the Philippine Benevolent Organization, the founder and President of which is Mayor Ruben Eccleo of Dinagat. We also tried the big clam shells...
March 29, 1971
11:15 PM On board the 777 on the way to Surigao We have just come from Tagbilaran where we docked at 1:00 PM in a strong rain that delayed us for half an hour. Again a riotous reception with people running out into the streets to greet us and shake our hands. But the...
March 28, 1971
We have just left Bacolod on the way to Tagbilaran, Bohol. We are right now on a south. I am having a massage specially the small of my back which has been aching lately. Thus the almost illegible scrawl. It has been a most stimulating day complete with riotous crowds...
March 27, 1971
Written at 2:45 AM on board the 777 Mar. 29 or the night of Mar. 28 The Sibuyan Sea which we crossed from 8:00 PM to 12:30 PM Saturday night was so rough the boat had a pitch, roll and a yaw which sent everybody to bed without dinner except Father Mafalen [MacPhelin],...