After the dinner for Sens. [Daniel] Inouye, [Joseph] Montoya (and lady), [Ernest] Hollings (and lady), [Birch] Bayh (and lady) and Mrs. Stevens wife of Rep. [sic] Sen. [Ted] Stevens. I had a conference with Sen. Inouye before dinner. He was concerned about the visit...
Marcos Diaries
January 9, 1973
Written at 10:00 AM Jan. 10, 1973 on board the 777 We seek change not just to prevent revolution but return the dignity of the individual and the nation. The individual so he can be the equal of any man in all things. The nation so it is truly free and not dependent...
January 8, 1973
2:30 AM Jan. 9th Open House from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM. The Supreme Court at 4:00 PM today released its unanimous decision as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal upholding my 1969 electoral victory over [Sergio] Osmeña [Jr.]—on the merits. It also is an assertion of the...
January 7, 1973
Report on the first 100 days of martial law and the New Society. Had to delay the speech over TV to 7:00 PM from 6:00 PM because the teleprompter was not ready. We had to call for the KBS [Kanlaon Broadcasting System] teleprompter which had to be set up and specially...
January 6, 1973
Worked on my speech tomorrow on the first 100 days. The thrust will be a return to a more rigid enforcement of the martial law decrees, general orders, instructions etc. For there has been a slide backward to the old society. Reform and the political campaign for the...
January 5, 1973
Written at 10:00 PM Jan. 6, 1972 as I was up to 3:00 AM this morning working on pending papers— Although Imelda was still sleepy from the anasthesia [sic] of the operation we left the Veterans Memorial Hospital for Malacañan. Received the credentials of Amb. Pauwi of...
January 4, 1973
1:30 AM Jan. 5, 1972 At the Presidential Suite Veterans Memorial Hospital We came from Talaga this afternoon at 5:00 PM, leaving last night at 12:00 PM I water skied at about 11:00 AM. Imelda has just been operated on for the black silk suture of the tendon of her...
January 3, 1973
On board the 777 waiting for the children. We go to Talaga, Limbones and Sangley Pt. to check on the facilities. Conference with the Moslem leaders. First on exclusive meeting with the outstanding leaders then at 1:00 PM a meeting with all the about 200 leaders, the...
January 1, 1973
2:10 AM Jan. 2, 1973 Imelda’s wound in the forearm is infected and the doctors may have to operate it—open it up to remove the sutures of catgut which because of the infection that may have reached the suture (at the cut of the tendon) is now a foreign body that must...
December 31, 1972
2:45 AM Jan. 1, 1973 New Year after Dinner, dancing and mass Issued the decree organizing the citizens Assembly today after meeting with the SND [Secretary of National Defense], Chief of Staff, General Staff and the major service commanders, the Executive Secretary,...