The SPCMA [Sugar Producers’ Cooperative Marketing Association, Inc.] proposal to buy the Esfac [Esso Standard Fertilizer and Agricultural Chemical Co., Inc.] for $29 million may end up in a scandal if we do not take precaution. Ex-Sec. Alfredo Montelibano came to see...

Slept at 2:00 AM last night and woke up at 7:00 AM. Blood examination by Dr. Mely Garcia. Golf from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM at Wack Wack (1st 9 and Holes Nos. 10, 11, 16, 17 and 18). Home for lunch at 12:30 PM. The children had classes this Saturday to make up for their...

Breakfast for Sec. of Transportation [John] Volpe former governor of Massachusetts. Voluble and Italian. Lacking in finesse. Even asked me, a head of state, to convey to the Holy Father his greetings! Short like Sec. [Carlos] Romulo, who was there with Sec. [Juan]...

12:55 AM November 13th Imee’s birthday. Gave her a diamond ring. Imelda gave her diamond earrings and a silver evening bag with her name in gold. Celebrated her birthday tonight with a dinner with her cousins and all of us in formal wear at the State Dining Room....

2:00 AM November 12th We are still gathering the election results. But Rizal is captured by the CSM [Christian Socialist Movement] and the Liberals. Manila has voted for independents. But in most provinces the candidates of Nacionalista leaders have won. Sympathizers...

Election Day. Voted in Batac. Left Baguio by Fokker at 9:40 AM. Left Laoag at 12:40 PM. I am being blackmailed by a Dovie Boehms [Beams] who has called a press conference at 6:00 PM and said she was my mistress. A damned lie! Sometime ago she threatened that if she...

Official Gazette for November 9, 1970: President Marcos inspected the rabbitry, mushroom and silk culture projects of the Mountain Province Development Authority, the stock farm of the Bureau of Plant Industry, and the experimental fruit ‘orchards of the bureau....

Imelda and I are happy in Baguio. It has been a long time since we have really been together. We spend hours alone—hours of tenderness and love. I must see to it that we do it more often. And she is lovelier than ever. She is blooming in the Baguio air. I can swear...

Sprained my right thumb very badly last night I could not grip a glass to drink but I played golf at Kaniao anyway because I found out that I could grip the club and when I relaxed my grip and wrist, I could drive farther. Imelda is in high spirits and full of...

Dra. Aragon and Isidro, the obstetricians and gynecologists of Imelda, are here and have just examined Imelda as we would like to have another child. And they are very optimistic that she is quite ready for it. There seems to be no reason why we should not have...