911–4

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.