Saturday I actually write this at 12:10 A.M. on Sunday evening as I have been busy and occupied. The day started with [Joaquin] Chino Roces and Enriquito Zobel. Chino came to say that he was for the success of my administration and that his paper would help. He also...
Marcos Diaries
January 29, 1970
Thursday [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...
March 22, 1970
Sunday This is actually being written at 8:30 AM March 23 at the Mirador Retreat House. I could not write it last night as my papers including my diary had been left behind at The Mansion when we checked into the retreat house. With me in retreat are Ramon Cojuangco,...
January 22, 1970
Malacañang Palace [p.45] I have been able to settle the Senate Presidency at 3:30 PM. [Gil] Puyat remains and [Jose] Roy becomes Executive Vice President of the Nacionalista Party as well as President Pro Tempore. [Arturo] Tolentino remains as majority floor...
January 19, 1970
Monday Veterans Memorial Hospital [p.39] Imelda is strong enough to play host to her crowd nightly. We have just eaten Chinese lugao and lumpia brought in by Joe and Betty Campos. I liked most the bajo or powdered beef tapa and the seaweed for the lumpia. It is now...
January 20, 1970
Malacañang Palace [p.41] I still write this in Veterans Memorial Hosp. at 8:00 AM. Meldy is coming home to the Palace at noon before lunch. We have stopped the regular stipends to the columnists and newspapermen. This was started by Pres. [Ramon] Magsaysay in 1954....
January 17, 1970
Saturday Veterans Memorial Hospital [p.35] Manila Times and even the Bulletin are trying to promote a fight between me and the media. Manila Times headlines the Nolan resignation, actually editorializing in that story. Then, yesterday, the Bulletin carried the front...
January 18, 1970
Sunday Veterans Memorial Hospital [p.37] The IMF consultative committee headed by Mr. Zavakar will recommend devaluation. We cannot accept this. [Sergio] Osmeña [Jr.] filed a protest against me in the Presidential Electoral Commission yesterday. This will give us a...
January 15, 1970
Thursday [p.31] The newspapers headlined (specially Manila Times) the resignation of [Ramon] Nolan from the Sugar Quota Adm[inistraton] and Sugar Institute. I have asked him to stay but today I have had to designate Jose Unson the Asst. Sugar Quota Adm. to replace...
January 16, 1970
Friday Veterans Memorial Hospital [p.33] Meldy’s cyst in the right breast has been removed and found benign—as the report says the mass is a fibrocystic disease. When Inday (Dr. Paciencia Disini) brought out the specimen, I was shocked at the size. It was about three...