Left by helicopter from Clark Air Force Base at 10:30 and arrived at Lingayen at 11:10 AM. Left Manila by Fokker at about 9:00 AM for Basa Air Base, then to Clark by the same plane. Had to take the helicopter 303 piloted by Col. Lapeña and Maj. Reynoso because the landing field of Lingayen is not operational.
There are still stranded people in Eastern Pangasinan—Natividad, San Nicolas, San Manuel, Asingan and in Southern Pangasinan Bayambang, Alcala and Bautista.
Met Gov. [Aguedo] Agbayani and Bd. Members Vince and Rosario.
The DART (Disaster and Rescue Teams) headed by Col. King and the Liaison groups rescued 130 people in Bayambang. About 2,000 people are in need of help there.
Had to go back to Clark at 12:30 AM [sic] where I took a hamburger and back to Manila at 2:10 PM arriving after twenty minutes.
Press interview then slept at 4:00 to 5:30.
Exercised after interview by Richardson of The Age.
Going back to Pangasinan via Puro Pt. tomorrow.
Official Gazette for July 22, 1972: PRESIDENT MARCOS and the First Lady, Imelda R. Marcos, for the second straight day, surveyed flooded areas of Central Luzon, reaching as far as Pangasinan.
The President and the First Lady took off early for Basa Air Base, one of the take-off points for the airlifting and airdropping of relief goods to the stricken areas in Pangasinan and Tarlac.
The Chief Executive, with a group of Cabinet members, then flew to Pangasinan to meet with provincial officials and the PC provincial commander in view of the lack of direct communications with the capital town of Lingayen and therefore the inability of the government to get detailed reports of the actual flood situation in the province.
With the President in going to Pangasinan were Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr., Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile, Public Works and Communications Secretary David Consunji, Public Highways Commissioner Baltazar Aquino.
The President stressed that immediate efforts should be directed to the rescue of people still marooned in the flooded areas which ,he surveyed aboard a helicopter on his way to Pangasinan from Clark Air Force Base.
In his talks with the officials of Pangasinan, the President said that he and the First Lady were doing everything possible to meet the requirements of the relief operations.