Written at 11:30 PM April 30th, Monday upon arrival from Talaga Bay with Irene Outing with the ADB [Asian Development Bank] Board of Governor’s delegations to Corregidor (Dr. Okita and Japanese Amb. [Toshio] Urabe with Japanese delegation went by helicopter to the...
Marcos Diaries
April 28, 1973
Bongbong left for London by KLM [Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij – Royal Dutch Airlines] at 5:40 PM. Everybody is feeling sad. Met Esther Sinsuat. I attach notes. One battalion, the Sixth, is being ordered from Cencom [Central Mindanao Command] to Davao Oriental,...
April 27, 1973
Boarded the 777 last night to spend the whole morning at Looc Cove water skiing with Bongbong and Irene with their friends. We have not been able to be with Bongbong too much and he leaves tomorrow. So we had today. Had to leave Looc Cave at 10:00 PM so as to catch...
April 26, 1973
Official Gazette for April 26, 1973: THE PRESIDENT sought a coordinated effort by the Government, management and labor to solve the country’s unemployment problem in order to complement the successful land reform and peace and order programs of the New Society. The...
April 24, 1973
Official Gazette for April 24, 1973: THE PRESIDENT was apprised by the Trans World Airlines’ recognition of the tourism potentials of the Philippines which it has included in the “Getaway Orient Tour Series” for the first time. Joseph L. Brumit, TWA Vice-president,...
April 22, 1973
7:00 PM After mass at the lounge Easter of the 777 We have spent almost all of this day on the sea—first at Looc Cove for skiing (I have finally learned to mono-ski and slalom a bit after many spills) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM then to Talaga which we left at about 5:30...
April 21, 1973
12:00 PM On board the 777 on a party for Evelin Rothschild after which we sleep on board to wake up in Lumbones and then to Talaga Official Gazette for April 21, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has formulated plans to revitalize the country’s tobacco and coconut industries in a...
April 20, 1973
While keeping to the Mansion I worked on: Official Gazette for April 20, 1973: THE PRESIDENT has directed the immediate implementation of a provision in the new Constitution requiring educational institutions to be solely owned by Philippine citizens or...
April 19, 1973
Official Gazette for April 19, 1973: REVAMP OF THE GOVERNMENT, along the lines of the parliamentary concept, will be pushed through by the next fiscal year through the adoption of “staffing patterns.” The stalling patterns, approved by the Cabinet during its last...
April 18, 1973
Written in Baguio Mansion Official Gazette for April 18, 1973: THE PRESIDENT said he may issue a presidential decree providing for the creation of new departments under the Government’s reorganization plan to ease the functions of oversized governmental entities....