Friday [p.20] [Jose B.] Laurel and [Gil] Puyat and even [Cornelio] Villareal say: “There is only one elector we have to campaign for and win—and he is Malacañang.” Breakfast with Speaker Laurel, Speaker Pro Tempore Jose Aldeguer and Majority Floor Leader Marcelino...
Marcos Diaries
January 8, 1970
Friday 25 Official Gazette for January 8, 1970: President Marcos again pressed efforts to boost the country’s export and tourist industries, as he met with various groups of government and private sector leaders. He conferred with tourist industry entrepreneurs at...
January 7, 1970
[p.18] Have just decided to appoint Greg[orio] Licaros as Central Bank Governor. When I told [Eduardo] Danding Romualdez [Jr.] and Bobby [Roberto] Benedicto of this, Danding suggested I appoint Deputy Gov. [Amado] Briñas as Acting Governor instead. Danding...
January 6, 1970
[p.16] The Afghanistan ambassador based in Tokyo presented his credentials at 9:00 AM. Constitutional monarchy of 17 million, it has Red China to the East, and Russia to the North and West and a birth rate of 1.7% “like Japan.” Tried to convince Jocelyn Campos...
January 5, 1970
[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...
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....
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,...
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]...
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...