5:30 PM while waiting to go to the park for the 25th wedding anniversary of Cong. Simeon Valdez Investments from Australia on garments (trousers from local synthetics) [Gaty Pty. Ltd.?]. The oil and energy crisis with Com. [Ismael?] Mathay. Integration of policy...
Marcos Diaries
June 25, 1973
The Ambassador of Iraq to Indonesia paid a courtesy call on me. And I asked him to visit Mindanao and to request his government to sell us crude oil for Filoil. We received the International Rotary Paul Harris Award for our efforts at peace and world understanding. A...
June 23, 1973
12:00 PM June 24, 1973 Saturday and Sunday Helicoptered to Tagaytay. Visited Camp General Mariano Castañada then inaugurated the Development Academy of the Philippines where I also swore in the Cavite Electric Cooperative. I attach the speech at the DAP [Development...
June 22, 1973
Spoke to the young Muslims and cultural minorities on the 16th anniversary of the Commission on National Integration. I called the Muslims to the south as the old world and the settlements of Luzon and the Visayas which was Christianized as the New World. And like the...
June 21, 1973
Official Gazette for June 21, 1973: THE PRESIDENT assured that there is no real emergency in the country s peace and order condition to warrant the mobilization of military reservists for combat duty. The Chief Executive made this assessment to dispel doubts that...
June 20, 1973
Official Gazette for June 20, 1973: THE PRESIDENT called on the country’s boy and girl scouts to help in the “salvaging operation” of some five million out-of-school youths. The President said these two youth organizations can accomplish much in improving the lots of...
June 19, 1973
Official Gazette for June 19, 1973: THE PRESIDENT urged the country’s war veterans to form themselves into working units to undertake development projects, specially on rural level. The Chief Executive, in a speech read for him by Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen....
June 17, 1973
12:30 PM June 18, 1973 Official Gazette for June 17, 1973: THE PRESIDENT granted amnesty to persons who had failed to file income tax returns. The President issued Presidential Decree No. 213 which noted that the number of income tax fliers for the calendar year 1972...
June 16, 1973
7:00 PM As I wait to go to the Cultural Center for the recital of Van Cliburn. I have decided to demand that the United States help in the strengthening of our defenses on the basis of our five-year self-reliance program. This would be in lieu of the demands that the...
June 14, 1973
4:00 PM On board the 777 going back to June 15, 1973 Official Gazette for June 14, 1973: THE PRESIDENT issued a decree intended to prevent the further destruction of the Ambuldao and Binga watersheds and to implement a massive tree-planting program in the area....