I write this as we are seeing a movie. Have just had a massage while posing for Sculptor [Florante] Caedo.
Went to the other side and played around with the children, hit a few golf balls, fed Abonazir, Urduja and Kitten some sugar cubes and went to see the dogs in the kennels (Snow White the Pekinese otherwise known as Pugger has skin disease and his eyes and ears are bare of any hair; Achilles has grown as big as Sandy the collie; Alaska and Butterball the chow dogs are about a foot tall; Bandido is as big and unruly as it can ever be).
Had our pictures taken with the pets and playing golf. The two girls enjoyed it. Jonjon was with us.
For the first time in a month I woke up at about 10:00 AM after going to bed at 11:30 PM. Had awakened at 4:00 AM because Irene was restless. Heard mass at 12:40 PM.
Talked to Imelda at about 12:00 AM. She tells me Sec. Gen. U Thant had just given her a dinner. She says [Carlos] Romulo was enthusiastic about his response to the toast of U Thant to her. She is getting to be quite a speaker. And she says that the Federal Reserve Bank Chairman has more or less promised a stabilization loan; the State Department has committed itself to supporting us in the Rural Electrification, Population Control and extension of the U.S. Sugar Act. Gov. Greg[orio] Licaros, Sec. Cesar Virata and other monetary authorities are going to New York to meet with her as they feel that her visit everywhere has had such a shocking impact that they must now follow it up. So
Official Gazette for September 27, 1970: President Marcos approved the rules and regulations on the exportation of corn which the Rice and Corn Export Committee drafted and was subsequently adopted by the National Food and Agriculture Council (NFAC).
A copy of the rules and regulations was submitted to the President in the morning by Agriculture Undersecretary Arturo R. Tanco, Jr., presidential action officer of the NFAC.
The NFAC, headed by Vice President Fernando Lopez, also Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has informed the President that the Philippines could export white corn up to a modest, maximum of 90,000 metric tons, worth some $6.3 million. The set of rules was designed to properly regulate such exportation. Under the rules approved by the President, the exporter must be a Filipino citizen, or a partnership, corporation, cooperative, association, producer and/or miller, engaged in the corn trade and duly registered with the Rice and Corn Board. The exporter must be capable as well of meeting export obligations as determined by the availability and/or control of warehousing and milling facilities and the availability and/or control of corn stocks.
Piles of official papers kept the President at his desk most of the morning and afternoon, in the course of which he submitted to the Commission on Appointments for confirmation the nominations of 10 municipal judges, two fiscals, a city judge and a bureau director.
she waits for them to get them coordinated. She also suggests that we retain the firm of Lloyd Hand whose senior partner is Republican Minority Leader [Hugh] Scott of the Senate. I have asked her to get in touch with him to find out if their firm could follow up the good work she has done.
As most of the men including the Federal Reserve Board Chairman who in autographing his book called her the most beautiful, talented and eloquent woman he has ever met, she certainly is more effective than any ambassador we have. But we have only one Imelda.
The other day I increased the housing allowances of officers in the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines]. They had been set twenty-five years ago. And some Master Sergeants were receiving more pay than second lieutenants. I did not increase the pay as it would farther increase the retirement pay from the present annual P61 million to P81 million. And yet we attain the same objective.