[p.66] Played golf with the Malacañang reporters at 5:00 PM. Everything has returned to normalcy. But I feel the HMB’s [Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan] with Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] and Ninoy [Benigno Aquino Jr.] masterminding them are planning some sabotage. Talked to...

[p.65] The threat to turn the funerals of the four dead students into a mass rally has failed so far as the parents of the victims refused to allow the dead bodies to be further utilized to inflame the youth. There is comparative quiet although there was a scare of...

[p.64] It seems clear now that the demonstrations and riots are engineered by the Liberal Party, Commander Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] and the Lopezes. The affidavit of a student leader (Villalon) attests to seven meetings in the office of my opponent [Sergio] Osmeña...

[p.63] Have suspended classes in the Greater Manila Area for one week. No Official Gazette entry for this day. Not part of the diary, a holograph letter to the Marcos children dated 1 February 1970 reads: To my children, Imee, Bongbong, and Irene: Why I am fighting...

[p.61] I write this tonight having been a little occupied last night during the demonstration or riot. I am glad I was able to hold back on the repeated requests to fire at the rioters, the first request when they took over a fire truck, burned it and rammed it...

[p.60] Still very quiet. The Kabataang Makabayan has been able to muster only about a hundred demonstrators before Malacañang. To cover up their inadequate number, they have gone to Congress where the NUSP under [Edgar] Jopson and the NSL have a more impressive...

[p.58] The UP faculty had a demonstration this afternoon. They walked from the Agrifina Circle to Malacañang, handed me a manifesto blaming the administration for the “pattern of repression.” No mention at all about who started the stoning nor the danger to the First...

[p.55] The pattern of subversion is slowly emerging. The danger is now apparent to me but not to most people. The conspiracy to grab power and assassinate me and about a hundred officers. The terrorism in Central Luzon with the HMB’s [Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan] and...

[p.54] Also met with Cong. [Justiniano] Montano at 11:30 AM. Asked him to stop his fellow Liberals from the crazy ideas of a coup d’etat. Imelda left for Leyte to attend the installation of the Bishop of Palo. Have just called her up by phone patch. She says Olot is...

[p.51] Opening session of Congress. State of the Nation Address and Riots by the demonstrators in front of Congress. Official Gazette for January 26, 1970: President Marcos laid down the imperative of self-discipline as “our salvation as a nation and the key to our...