10:10 PM, May 3rd 7 I write this on the 3rd as we were busy up to 1:30 AM last night with Meldy and after that I fell asleep. Woke up at 5:30 but went back to bed till 8:00 when Imelda and I talked in bed about all the things she and I had been through together since...

This is my 16th Wedding Anniversary. Mass at 7:00 AM. But the children had a surprise for us. They barged into our room shouting like demonstrators dressed up like radicals with head bands and Molotov cocktails (actually dry ice in water in 7-Up bottles, smoking like...

Magalang, Pampanga at 8:50 AM—40 minutes by Huey helicopter (______ and Reynoso as pilots) from Malacañang, for the new approach to land reform. Official Gazette for April 30, 1970: President Marcos spent most of the day out of Malacañang, as he visited Magalang,...

The conference committee on the stabilization tax bill approved the conference report with the amendment that instead of sterilization of the last 25% of the proceeds it Official Gazette for April 29, 1970: President Marcos had a big group of callers—a delegation of...

Am still awaiting word from the conference committee on the stabilization tax on whether they have agreed on the version that we worked out. Substantially as we agreed in the caucus but 25% of proceeds to be sterilized in a special fund in the Central to be spent only...

In the breakfast this morning I convinced the senators and congress leaders to agree to: Official Gazette for April 27, 1970: President Marcos met anew with the leaders of both houses of Congress to further consider the means of speeding up passage of the minimum wage...

AID is pulling out at least twenty percent of its personnel as the U.S. decides to withdraw aid all over the world. This has been in the offing for several years. But perhaps it is about time we cut off all aid to us and really be self-reliant. We are losing $7...

I believe I should proclaim the entire Philippines as a land reform area provided that the farmers will agree not to seek or demand loans from the government for their inputs as we do not have the funds. But I still think we must organize cooperatives. And the...

Gen. [Charles] Lindbergh is here on the conservation of marine life. His son Jon Lindbergh is head of the U.S. Agency on Oceanography. With him is Theodore Pryor, head of the Foundation on Oceanography. Met them at 9:30 AM then attended the lunch for them where they...

Bongbong’s graduation from seventh grade. And I was the commencement speaker. The title—“The student leaders of the 70’s.” Hanz Menzi tells me that Manila Times and the other newspapers are conducting a survey on the grievances and revolution. But Chino [Joaquin]...