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Conversation: 911-004

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Start Date: 3-May-1973 9:11 AM

End Date: 3-May-1973 9:30 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Packard, DavidBull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

911-004.mp3

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.
                                         -9-

              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 

                                              -10-


                   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.