[p.14] Open House—formal diplomatic toast—National interest does not prevent us to remember we are one world and one humanity. We have many difficulties on the Marcos Foundation because we have to make an inventory valuation and consider the legitimes of the children....
Marcos Diaries
January 4, 1970
[p.8] Ex-President [Diosdado] Macapagal, who is visiting in Singapore, says that he is shocked by the news that there is supposed to be a secret agreement for the Sabah claim to be relinquished by the Philippines after the resumption of the diplomatic relations. There...
January 3, 1970
[p.5] Some people asked me why I have given away my earthly possessions. I invariably answered that I did not need them but that the people did. But I have been asking myself why has the world become so vile, so materialistic, so dirty. All is pragmatism, selfish and...
January 2, 1970
[p.3[ Mrs. Agnew left this morning to join VP Agnew at Taipeh. Meldy had breakfast with her—7:30—she was not awake so she (Meldy) waited for 8:30 AM. Last Dec. 29, 1969 when I was playing golf, two sausage twin-rotor engine Navy (US) helicopters for VP [Spiro] Agnew...
January 1, 1970
I start a daily written record of my second term in office as President. This will be kept in loose-leaf so that all kinds of materials may be attached to the binder. Thus the background should be a treatise on the elections of 1969. This will be composed of my...
December 31, 1969
Official Gazette for December 31, 1969: President Marcos started his new term as President of the Republic. Highlight of the President’s activities was his issuance of an official statement in which he made public his decision to give away his worldly possessions....
July 6, 1969
We are now proceeding towards Cagayan de Oro City which should be reached by five o’clock following morning. We may be able to proceed from there to Malaybalay, Bukidnon which I have not visited for sometime since I became President. Incidentally, Cagayan de Oro City...
July 4, 1969
On board 777 THE PRESIDENT at 9:00 PM I am about to take dinner in the dining saloon in this 2,400-ton Presidential yacht which is a carry over [sic] from the administration of President Garcia from 1957 to 1961. It was ordered from reparations at an alleged cost of...
January 31, 1970
Malacañang Saturday 10:00 AM [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,...
January 30, 1970
Friday 4:00 PM [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...