3:00 AM
November 8, 1971
We have just come from the NP [Nationalista Party] Bandwagon 71’. I believe we have made a good presentation of the issues and a final appeal. I attach my notes.
This is the meeting de avance by television which is nationwide through radio.
The candidates also presented good appeals.
Sen. Pres. [Gil] Puyat was there. So was Sen. Pres. Pro Temp. [Tempore] [Jose] Roy, Sen. Floor Leader [Arturo] Tolentino (for a time Sen. Doy [Salvador] Laurel), the senatorial candidates except Sen. [Alejandro] Almendras who is in Davao and Former First Lady Inday [Leonila] Silay Garcia who is in Bohol.
Instead of the dull speeches after speeches of the LP [Liberal Party], we had dances and skits and songs.
Luncheon for Dame Margot Fonteyn at 1:00 PM, then I attended to the many requests for funds which were all rejected as we would be exceeding the legal limit of expenditure.
No golf today as we made the last-minute preparations for the elections.
I fly at 7:00 AM tomorrow to vote in Batac and return before noon.
Official Gazette for November 7, 1971: PRESIDENT MARCOS spent the day working on state papers in his private study and keeping tab of the overall situation in the country, it —being eye of election day.
Throughout the day, the President received reports from leaders from North to South, who assured him that they were doing everything to insure clean and orderly elections, in cooperation with the Commission on Elections and other instrumentalities.
In an election eve message, the President asked every Filipino to “make of record, and to sanctify with the ballot, his own choice of men and women who should . . . be entrusted with some of the powers of government.”
“I ask our people to affirm their faith in our own capacity to stand together and work united under any circumstance, and to advance the cause of peace and progress instead of violence and hate,” the President said.