August 4 and 5, 1944
Long talk with Dr. Trepp the day after the funeral. What an extraordinary career was Quezon’s!–born a village boy in Baler in 1878, of mixed… Read More »August 4 and 5, 1944
Long talk with Dr. Trepp the day after the funeral. What an extraordinary career was Quezon’s!–born a village boy in Baler in 1878, of mixed… Read More »August 4 and 5, 1944
Towards the middle of December 1943, Quezon moved with his family to Miami, Florida. He craved the sunshine and warmth of a climate more nearly… Read More »December 1943–May 31, 1944
did not see Quezon this day; he had a Cabinet meeting for half an hour at 11:30 a.m. and then “slept” the rest of the… Read More »September 30, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Quezon back from Saranac in his apartment in the Shoreham; still on his back and confined to his bedroom; full of fight over… Read More »September 29, 1943
Saranac Lake, N.Y. This is the first entry in this diary for more than three months. Early in June, Quezon was attacked by bronchitis and… Read More »September 6-9, 1943
Lunch with Mrs. Luther Bewley, the wife of my old director of education in the Philippines, who is now a prisoner of the Japanese at… Read More »May 27, 1943
Doria and I sat in a taxi today with Mrs. Paul McNutt who had not seen our small daughter Ursula since she was a baby… Read More »May 26, 1943
This day stands out in my memory because it was the last time when the President looked like the robust Quezon of a much earlier… Read More »May 25, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Osmeña was operated upon hurriedly on Saturday last for appendicitis. Quezon goes down to Doctors’ Hospital every day to call on him. The… Read More »May 24, 1943