I have been busy on the State of the Nation address. Up to now the page proof is not yet printed. It may be finished at midnight. I attach the proof.
And we are busy cutting down the written text which may be about 150 pages to a 30 minute text. That would be about 20 pages. Right now it is 50 pages.
The 16th year reparations among other papers (including a new tariff increase as well as the promotions in the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] and the judiciary) kept me occupied up to 2:00PM.
Missed mass as after a nap, golf and a meeting with the Malacañang boys when I gave them a preview of the State of the Nation address and Sec. [Juan] Ponce Enrile, Gen. [Romeo] Espino and Gen. [Fidel] Ramos, I attended to the galley proofs.
Sec. Ponce Enrile reports Cebu City is keeping away all national agencies from the city. And the casinos and other places of illegal amusement abound in the city.
While I personally expect no trouble or violence in the opening session tomorrow, we have been warned of such possibility.
I attach a sample telegram from a certain Atty. Romero as well as the plans for tomorrow.
Official Gazette for January 23, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS did not receive any callers today but instead closeted himself in his private study to put the finishing touches to his State-of-the-Nation Message.
Early in the evening, the President broke off from his study to hear Mass at the Malacañang chapel.