Just finished the conference on the reorganization bill with the Reorganization Commission and the leaders of Congress before which I had a conference with the Senate President, Senate Pres. Pro Tempore, Speaker and House Majority Floor Leader. We have decided to...
Marcos Diaries
February 23, 1971
Spoke before the Colombo Plan conference at Savoy at 10:00 AM. I attach my speech. It was met with a standing ovation. Met the DND [Department of National Defense] Secretary and Generals [Manuel] Yan, [Romeo] Espino, [Eduardo] Garcia, [Felizardo] Tanabe, [Zosimo]...
February 22, 1971
Started dieting on Delmor and pospas last night up to today. But was cleared of ulcers or my growth in the GI [gastrointestinal] tract when I went through a GI series of X-Rays in Makati Medical Center with Dr. Piedad and Dr. Villacorta with Dr. Yap and Zagala...
February 21, 1971
Took time off and played 18 holes in Manila Golf. Felt pain in the stomach when I dr[a]nk Welch grape juice mixed with beer. I stopped by taking Gelusil then eating pospas of chicken (soft boiled rice with chicken) and taking Gelusil again. The symptoms seem to...
February 20, 1971
I attach the communications on the sugar quota problem. We want to keep our quota of 1,500,000 tons provided for by the Laurel-Langley agreement plus 47.22% of the deficiency of the Puerto Rico quota and the American increase of their consumption. But the domestic...
February 19, 1971
I ordered the criminal prosecution of the persons guilty for the smuggling of burley tobacco at the Currimao port. The 13 trucks that were caught on the road and brought to Camp Olivas then to Camp Aguinaldo had 40 drums filled up with burley tobacco. They belong to...
February 18, 1971
I have just had my teeth attended to by the dentist, Dr. Primo Gonzales, Chairman of the Board of Examiners of Dentistry and Capt. Paz as well as Dr. Maliksi who attended (the latter two in the Pres. Guards). My teeth that had been broken by my Japanese torturers in...
February 17, 1971
I slept only 3 hours last night as I worked on the reorganization bill up to 4:00 AM and woke up at 7:00 AM. Then I worked the whole morning with the cabinet again on the reorganization plans, lunch at 2:00 PM, a listless nap of half an hour, merienda with the PPSTA...
February 16, 1971
I have just finished a dinner conference with the northern congressmen, 17 of them including [Carmelo] Miling Barbero of Abra. We agreed to strengthen the group's organization and keep their delegates of the constitutional convention from being bought by the radicals...
February 15, 1971
Imelda and I have just met with the congressmen from the Bicolandia, Visayas and Mindanao—45 in number—all Nacionalistas. Some could not come because of faulty communications. But I exhorted them to unity and courage to fight for our principles. “I will not preside...