Conversation: 911-004
Prev: 911-003 Next: 911-005Start Date: Thursday, May 3, 1973 1:11 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 3, 1973 1:30 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Packard, David; Bull, Stephen B.Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, David Packard, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:11 am to 9:30 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 911-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 911-4
Date: May 3, 1973
Time: 9:11 am - 9:30 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with David M. Packard, Stephen B. Bull, and Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins.
Packard’s schedule
President’s signature
Photograph
Henry A. Kissinger’s schedule
-Moscow
Bull left at an unknown time before 9:30 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 911-4 (cont’d)
Photograph
-Arrangement
-Atkins
Florida
-Weather
-President’s travel to Key Biscayne
Packard
-Position with Defense Department
-Defense Secretary
-Meeting with President
-Election
-New York
-Undersecretary
-Finances
-Stocks
-Hewlett-Packard
-Disposition
-Senate confirmation
-Packard’s conversations
-Melvin R. Laird
-John C. Stennis
-William R. Hewlett
-Enthusiasm
-Packard’s forthcoming conversations
-William P. Rogers, Stennis, and Elliot L. Richardson
-Control over appointments
-Temporary appointment
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction [MBFR]
-William P. Clements, Jr.’s support
-Problems
-Capitol Hill
-Budget
-Clements’s appointment
-Compared to transition time with Laird
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. September-2012)
Conversation No. 911-4 (cont’d)
-Packard’s forthcoming conversations
-Rogers, Richardson
-Stennis
-Other candidates
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Clements
-Packard’s stocks
-Packard’s forthcoming conversations
-Rogers, Richardson, and Stennis
-Packard’s answer
Watergate
-Firing of H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Release of names of pre-April 7, 1972 donors
-Maurice H. Stans
-Robert L. Vesco
-President’s nephew [Donald A. Nixon]
-Ehrlichman
-John N. Mitchell
-Stans
Packard’s possible role with administration
-Finances
Packard left at 9:30 am.