Imelda went alone to Quezon Province on [Manuel] Quezon’s birthday celebration and as usual was mobbed by the people in the five towns she visited with Sen. Pres. Pro Tempore Jose Roy. Speculations will continue snowballing about her running for President after me....
Marcos Diaries
August 18, 1970
Sen. Dominador Aytona, chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate, is apparently trying to blackmail me into further financing the IISMI [Iligan Integrated Steel Mills, Inc.] of which he is Ex-Vice President and legal counsel, to the prejudice of the government...
August 17, 1970
Opened the Seminar on Youth Development initiated by the National Science Development Board chairman, Gen. [Florencio] Medina, and asked for an integrated Youth Development Program drafted systematically and scientifically by professionals with both local and...
August 16, 1970
Posed for Florante Caedo, the young sculptor, from 10:00-12:00, for a bust from the life mask he made of me last Friday night. Imelda will be next. I will pose for him again Tuesday night. Imelda visited Nini [Zenaida Quezon-Avanceña] this afternoon with Dr. Estefania...
August 15, 1970
The Korean government through Ambassador Kim Se Ryun presented this afternoon on their national day their own art of self-defense the Taewok-Don [Taekwondo] at the Maharlika Hall and not at the lawn in [Bahay] Pangarap because it rained. Opened the NPC [National Power...
August 14, 1970
Played five holes of tolerable golf in [Bahay] Pangarap at 6:00-7:00 notwithstanding the vertigo and congested nose. Feel good. Oil has been struck in an offshore drilling off Brunei on a shelf that extends towards Sulu and Palawan. So there is excitement about the...
August 13, 1970
Official Gazette for August 13, 1970: President Marcos was guest of honor at the ceremonies launching National Language Week, held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City. Before and after that engagement, the President worked on...
August 12, 1970
I write on the new stationery ordered by Imelda, guaranteed not to disintegrate in ten years as ordinary bond paper is supposed to. Met with the leaders of both houses of Congress on the priority listing of bills to be approved in the third special session set Sept....
August 11, 1970
I have told Cong. Nicanor Yñiguez, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who is going to Moscow with Cong. [Carmelo] Barbero that we must know if Russia will keep the pressure on Red China because so long as she does, we (the Philippines) is in no danger...
August 10, 1970
Dr. Ariston Bautista our nose and ear specialist says what I have is an adenopharyngo-conjunctival virus. My eyes are swollen and tearing, my nose is congested, I have muscle pains and general body weakness but no fever. He says he had it up to the weekend and it...