The poor people of Tondo, our slum area, came over to Malacañang at 4:00 PM to pledge loyalty to me in the fight against the oligarchs. Students, activists, laborers and intellectuals were there. We could make this the rallying cry, "Fight the oligarchs who suppress...
Marcos Diaries
January 14, 1971
**This page in transcript has no holograph. 12:35 AM I accepted the resignation of Vice Pres. [Fernando] Lopez this morning. I attach my letter of acceptance. But before I received his letter of resignation or more accurately said before he reiterated his resignation...
January 13, 1971
The congressmen close to me, Cong. [Eduardo] Cojuangco [Jr.], Frisco San Juan, [Mohammad] Ali Dimaporo, Jose Aspiras, Navarro, Lucas Cauton, Roque Ablan all pressed for the use of my emergency powers. “We cannot understand why you are so patient. Do not wait until we...
January 12, 1971
Official Gazette for January 12, 1971: President Marcos went on a nationwide radio and television hookup in the evening, and appealed to both the oil industry and the striking drivers to end the impasse. “I am aware that the protagonists in this unfortunate...
January 11, 1971
Official Gazette for January 11, 1971: President Marcos held a two-hour joint conference with the leaders of Congress and the executive committee of the Foreign Policy Council, in Malacañang in the morning. During the meeting, he took up with the leaders of Congress...
January 10, 1971
Bongbong called up from London to say that he and Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] arrived at quarter to eleven London time which would be quarter to six in the evening Manila time. He was able to sleep in the plane sitting up and London is not bitter cold as they expected...
January 9, 1971
Bongbong left by Qantas via Hongkong, New Delhi, Teheran, Athens and London. I talked to him and his sisters, Imelda and Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] about the possibility of his mother and two sisters joining him if there should be trouble here; that whether I am there...
January 8, 1971
I write this at 10:45 PM at the State Dining Room while watching Mediterranean Holiday. Bongbong on Flight No. 761 of Quantas Left Hongkong at 8:53 PM and will arrive At New Delhi at 3:20 AM and all is well. OG January 8, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS heard for the second...
anuary 7, 1971
Actually, I write this at 8:00 PM, Saturday, Jan. 9th as on Thursday evening I was ill with a severe cold which they treated me with Decolgen resulting in some painful spasms of the esophagus and which drove me to bed. Bongbong took down the outline I dictated in bed...
January 6, 1971
Delivered one of my best speeches tonight at the Federation of Provincial Press Clubs in the Winter Garden at the Manila Hotel. If I say so myself, I felt that it was witty, sharp and incisive but humble and profound. It was witty when I said I might now be identified...