I write this as we are seeing a movie. Have just had a massage while posing for Sculptor [Florante] Caedo. Went to the other side and played around with the children, hit a few golf balls, fed Abonazir, Urduja and Kitten some sugar cubes and went to see the dogs in...

Imelda is in New York and we cannot get her for another hour and a half. We are going to bed early as we woke up early this morning. Met all the mayors of Sulu, Camarines Norte and Nueva Vizcaya, the latter also devastated by the last typhoon Pitang. Then met Gen....

As usual there are many comments about the pleasant treatment we have given to Commanders Sumulong [Faustino del Mundo], Zaragosa [Avelino Bagsik] and Legaspi—bringing them to the palace to be fawned over by the media specially television. But I know what I am doing....

Settled the demonstrations in Davao del Norte by releasing 8,200 hectares of public land for settlement at Laac, Asuncion and ordering the Under Sec. of Agriculture Official Gazette for September 24, 1970: President Marcos, in a welcome break in presidential routine,...

Imelda has practically shocked Pres. [Richard] Nixon and [Henry] Kissinger into doing something for the Philippines by informing them in candid words that the Philippines will be lost to the U.S. if she does not help. So now the White House is in a state of agitation...

Have just come from the Plaza where I inducted the new officers of the Chamber of Commerce. Had to change my speech. The speech writers had again insisted upon the constitutional convention. Signed the export incentives bill in their presence. Apparently the massacre...

Talked to [Jose] Joe Roy after golf. We are checking on the safeguards against the use of the Nacionalista Party name in the campaign for delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Some candidates still insist in support by the party and the party leaders. And we...

Have just arrived from the Enlisted Men’s Association 11th year anniversary complete with queen, princesses, pageants and my speech where I emphasized the reasons for fighting communism, announced that Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame should not be sold and the 200...

We clapped during and after the television show over Channel 9 (KBS [Kanlaon Broadcasting System] exclusive) of the trip of Imelda and Bongbong to Rome and England. We means the two girls and myself taking dinner at our breakfast nook in the living room from 9:00 to...

The talk of the town is still the capture of Commander Sumulong [Faustino del Mundo]. The Liberals are sour graping as usual, [Gerardo] Roxas and [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] insinuating that it was a rigged-up surrender and not a capture! They just want their names in the...