Visited Ilocos Sur and La Union today. The first on the Green Revolution of Imelda, the second at 6:30 PM on the projects in the barrios.
Tree planting and meeting with the people of Sto. Domingo and greeting the people of the other towns from the car.
Started late (at 10:30 AM) because of the conferences with the leaders specially Congs. [Roque] Ablan [Jr.] and [Simeon] Valdez, Delegate [Antonio] Raquiza, Ex. Gov. and now Com. [Jose] Evangelista, Ex. Vice Gov. and now Chairman [Constante] Fariñas. The idea was to impress them with the gravity to me of the gubernatorial fight in the province. “It means political survival to me.” And that we must treat it dispassionately. There must be no split in the group. A split will not be forgiven.
They, specially Cong. [Roque] Ablan [Jr.], seems to have gotten the message. He promised “he would talk to his mother” before he brought her to Malacañang.
“I am not the candidate, nor are the senatorial candidates—the true candidates is the ideal—the Reform Movement and Democracy. This is the beggar for your votes. This is the supplicant for your support.”
“In 1969 I ran on a Reform Platform—Land Reform, Tax Reform, Electoral Reform, Government Reorganization, equal and forceful application of the Labor laws, Rural Improvement, the battle against corruption etc.
“I ran on the platform of anti-communism and on the organization or the BSDU’s [Barrio Self-Defense Units] in Central Luzon.
“All of these have been blocked by the oligarchs and the communists or sympathizers of
Official Gazette for July 24, 1971: President Marcos, together with the First Lady, Imelda R. Marcos, left his hometown of Batac where they spent the night, for Vigan, Ilocos Sur where Mrs. Marcos also launched the local chapter of the “Green Revolution.”
Addressing thousands of green uniformed local ladies who converged at the Quirino Memorial Stadium, Mrs. Marcos gave assurance that the Green Revolution is not a political gimmick but a product of the President’s democratic revolution “to change our hearts, our habits of indolence, our weakness as a nation and as individuals of not caring for our fellowmen.” While in Vigan, the President conferred with local officials headed by Gov. Carmeling P. Crisologo on problems of the province, including the status of local development projects.
In the afternoon, the President crossed over to San Fernando, La Union where he held another conference with local officials on the progress of various ongoing projects in their respective localities.
On the way to San Fernando, the President made a whistle-stop in Agoo, hometown of Rep. Jose D. Aspiras, to address the townspeople who had lined the route and converged at the town plaza to welcome him.
The President and his family spent the night in Poro Point.
the communists.”
This is the presentation of the issue in the coming elections that I developed in San Fernando, La Union.
Incidentally, I touched my anting-anting to ask the rain to stop and it stopped!