I write this at 8:10 PM Dec. 6th, Sunday, as we approach Manila They are setting the sea detail for docking on Pier 5. We have spent the day in Talaga Bay, Mariveles, Bataan although I helicoptered at 9:30 AM to Malacañang to speak at the Free Farmers Federation...

I must be getting old. I am more and more beginning to reminisce. I am beginning to find sustenance in the past. Samuel Sarmiento—He is the only Filipino winner of the “Emmy” TV award in the USA 1970. I attach his letter. In his letter to Doroy [Teodoro] Valencia he...

Official Gazette for December 3, 1970: President received at least three big groups at Malacañang including public officials, and private individual callers. As usual, the President had a full day of activity during which he issued an appeal for full support of the...

Met Faq Special Committee on Rural Reform headed by the former President of Columbia. Then [Kenneth] MacLesh of the Natural Geographic who is also an anthropologist. Governor [Samuel] Reyes—he is interested in a sugar mill for Isabela. We suffered about P25 million...

I write this on Wednesday, December 3rd, as Imelda was sick last night and we had to take care of her. Of all things she took among others Brandy which made her amorous. Routine meetings with politicians and government officers. PAAF [Philippine Amateur Athletic...

I write this as I stay by Imelda who is in bed in our bedroom as she is feeling sick. We are trying to call up Col. Los Baños, the military attaché in London, so we can tell him to allow Bongbong to come home by plane alone but to inform the embassies on the way to...

The Pope left at 7:15 PM after our departure statements. We are relieved because there were repeated reports of attempts against his life. Yesterday afternoon during the first open and public mass at Rizal Park a man in santanna was supposed to make another attempt....

There are many versions of who and how the would-be-assassin was frustrated from killing the Pope with his dagger. The Manila Times, specially, has printed all kinds of stories including that a Times photographer, Manuel Valenzuela, who allegedly bumped into the...

Official Gazette for November 27, 1970: President Marcos and the First Lady, Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos, led the nation in extending a warm welcome to His Holiness, Pope Paul VI. In his welcome remarks, the President said that His Holiness came “at a time of trial, of deep...

Met the congressional leaders and after some argument with Gerry [Gerardo] Roxas who wanted it postponed for at least a week so that we could show some repair and rehabilitation before we increased tariff duties and others like Sen. Pres. [Gil] Puyat Official Gazette...