Down with a cold. For the first time in months I did not exercise today. Apparently caught it from Imelda. The rice shortage has contaminated other areas of commodity buying. The supermarkets are crowded with buyers stacking up with all types of essentials including...
Marcos Diaries
August 6, 1973
Amb. William Sullivan presented his credentials today. All of us have our misgivings about him. After all he ran the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] American war in Cambodia. And he is the right hand man of [Henry] Kissinger in Indo China—and Kissinger is no friend...
August 4-5, 1973
1:00 AM Aug. 6th On Saturday afternoon, Com. [Leonardo] Perez and [Flores] Bayot presented the results of the referendum at 3:00 PM and I appeared on TV and radio with a speech and later held a press conference—starting at 4:00 PM lasting up to about 6:00 PM. On...
August 3, 1973
1:00 AM Aug. 4th Official Gazette for August 3, 1973: COMMISSION on Elections announced that the resounding “yes” answered by the voters in their ballots during the July 27-28 referendum gave the President a “persuasive fresh mandate.” Comelec Chairman Leonardo Perez...
August 2, 1973
1:00 AM Aug. 3rd A After the referendum have outlived the strategy for action: Arrest the back-sliding to the old society vices. Bring about unity. Achieve the “internal revolution.” Official Gazette for August 2, 1973: THE PRESIDENT issued a presidential decree...
August 1, 1973
Spent the whole morning with Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile on the problems of the military: Official Gazette for August 1, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has empowered military commissions and provost courts with jurisdiction to try military personnel for military offenses in...
July 30-31, 1973
Official Gazette for July 30, 1973: THE PRESIDENT conferred the Philippine Legion of Honor, degree of commander, on General Lai Ming-tang, for meritorious and valuable services rendered to the Republic of the Philippines. General Lai, who was an official guest of the...
July 29, 1973
Imee arrived today from London—at 8:10 PM. Dinner an impromptu soiree and the movie, “The Day of the Jackal” for the guests while Imelda and I talked to Imee who was all stories of the Marches. Met Mr. Gilbert Trigano, President of Club Mediterranean. They are...
July 27-28, 1973
11:00 PM July 28th Official Gazette for July 27, 1973: THE PRESIDENT issued General Order No. 34 calling upon all residential and commercial lot owners to utilize their idle, undeveloped lots; by cultivating them for the production of rootcrops and vegetables in line...
July 25-26, 1973
1:00 AM July 27th Official Gazette for July 25, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has issued Presidential Decree No. 224 modifying the service area pattern authorized for departments and agencies setting up regional offices under the Integrated Reorganization Plan. Article I,...