Cool bracing morning. Calm lake. Skiing. Pleasant flight back to Manila.
Tribute to women more specifically Imelda, “the only woman I have known,” upon arrival at the PICC Kababaihan Kabalikat sa Kaunlaran (11:20 AM).
About 1:15 PM at luncheon-conference with AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] Senior Core Members at the Heroes Hall, Malacañan—
The philosophy of the peaceful solution of the Mindanao conflict—deprive the MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] and similar groups of the ideology that they succeeded in motivating and unifying their fighters whether it is religion or injustice or reform.
They negotiate only because they have lost the war. But irregular war is and will always be dirty, nasty, and complex and so will its end.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.