Am waiting for the family to arrive from dinner at the Tokyo Restaurant, a one-door affair but with good Japanese food. I was proceeding there at 10:00 PM when the radio said they were already bringing home Mrs. [Lulu] Tinio who is apparently giving the party for the...

Met Ambassador [Henry] Byroade on Cambodia. He showed me the latest dispatches from American sources. And it is certain that the Americans and S. Vietnamese have destroyed plenty of ammunition, guns, supplies, communications and Official Gazette for May 11, 1970:...

Imelda has arrived. Malacañang was a haunted lonely place without the family. She arrived at 7:30 PM. Went to meet her in black tie and white dinner jacket then to the Cultural Center for Fiddler on the Roof. And it was a revelation. As the children who saw it for the...

Have to write this early as I am meeting with the oil people to finalize the agreement on the following options: Pull back or roll back of gas prices or Trust fund of P5 million I will insist that if the level of the rate of the peso goes down from P6.00 to the...

Actually written 9:30 AM May 9, 1970 as I had a conference until 12:30 AM Exercised hard (as usual 17 minutes of fast jogging, 50 sit-ups for the abdominal muscles, bicep fast free hand curl 100-200 times, 50 times knee-bends, push-ups between two chairs, 20 times,...

I am now in Malacañang as I had to hurry back to meet Dr. Sani, representative of Indonesia, who was sent to impress upon me the need for Sec. [Carlos] Romulo to attend the Djakarta conference called by Foreign Minister Adam Malik of South East Asian or rather Asian...

We are off the coast of southern Cotabato and will be docking at 5:00 AM to leave for the Dole Pineapple plantation for golf at 6:00 AM. Tee-off time is 7:00 AM. We go to the airfield, an hour’s drive away at 10:00 AM. I take off not later than 11:30 AM for Manila as...

Written on May 6 11:55 PM I write this on the 6th as we went to bed at 2:00 PM last night after a futile hunt for wild boar until 11:30 PM. We had decided to postpone our trip by twelve hours as we could hunt only in the evening. Father Andrew Chalkey, (Sibutu Notre...

Ursula Island was a disappointment. There was rain at about 5:30 AM and there were no birds. We were all wet so we went swimming after which I went into the forest. Felt a mosquito bite me so I have insisted everybody take comaquin as a phrophylaxis [sic] against...

Have just issued the statement in Puerto Princesa that the operations of the South Vietnamese and American troops against the Vietcong and Vietminh in Cambodia is not an invasion but a measure of self-protection which any commander in the field would take given the...