Started dieting on Delmor and pospas last night up to today.
But was cleared of ulcers or my growth in the GI [gastrointestinal] tract when I went through a GI series of X-Rays in Makati Medical Center with Dr. Piedad and Dr. Villacorta with Dr. Yap and Zagala attending.
So it is plain hyperacidity which should disappear with less tension and dieting.
Met some of the San Miguel Dealers of Andy [Andres] Soriano [Jr.] this morning after golf, then cabinet meeting on the reorganization plan.
Rest and a meeting with the Congressional leaders including Montano at 4:00-6:30 PM. Met Mayor Villegas at 7:00-7:30 on the statement of Atty. Lupiño Lazaro of Pasang-Masda [Pangkalahatang Samahan ng Maynila at Suburbs Drivers Associations] that the students, apparently Vic Clemente and Chito Sta. Romana, were inciting them to a revolution. The drivers refused and now dissociate themselves from the radical students. But they will still continue the fight for lower prices of oil products.
Met Delegate [Celso] Gangan of Isabela. Cocky and half-ignorant of constitution making
Official Gazette for February 22, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS held morning and afternoon sessions with his Cabinet to finalize the integrated reorganization plan for the executive branch of the government. Also present at the afternoon session to which Congress leaders were invited were Senate President Protempore Jose J. Roy, Senators Dominador Aytona, Wenceslao R. Lagumbay and Lorenzo Teves; and Reps. Justiniano S. Montano, Rogaciano Mercado, Jose Alberto and Rafael B, Legaspi.
In between these two conferences, the President did his usual desk work. He had no callers except for the delegation of San Miguel Corporation distributors in the United States, who paid a courtesy call.
The President thanked the group for their response to his call for intensifying the national campaign to encourage tourism and the development of export products.
Accompanying the group were SMC officials, including Andres Soriano, Jr., president; Joaquin B. Preysler, executive vice president; Col. Lee A. Telesco, assistant vice president; A. E. Streegan, U. S. marketing director; G. Adolfo Roenach, beer marketing division manager; Jose A. Carpio, public relations office manager; Augusto de Asis, expert department manager; Mariano Limjap, marketing service manager; Felix Avellana, general sales manager; and M. J. Edralin, Jr., public relations coordinator.
Because of his morning and afternoon conferences, the President was not able to attend the opening convention of the Assembly of Teachers, Future Agricultural Homemakers and Future Farmers in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
He however asked Undersecretary of Agriculture Jose Drilon, Jr. to read his speech prepared for the occasion, in which the President expressed the government’s determination to pursue land reform “to break up the shackles of feudalism in our land tenure system.”
Pointing to the “period of change” the nation is undergoing, he said that Filipinos “must accept the reality of change or change will impose itself upon us.”
The administration itself, he said, is committed to democratic change and has “set in motion a peaceful revolution.”
The change initiated by the government, he said, “to emancipate our farmers” will be achieved not through violence but through a democratic revolution “within the framework of our Constitution and our laws.”
like most young delegates.