{{Short description|American electrical engineer (1912–1996)}} {{about||his son, the professor and philanthropist|David Woodley Packard}} {{Use American English|date=February 2016}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = David Packard | image = David Packard.jpg | office1 = 13th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense | term_start1 = January 24, 1969 | term_end1 = December 13, 1971 | predecessor1 = Paul Nitze | president1 = Richard Nixon | successor1 = Kenneth Rush | birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|09|07}} | birth_place = Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1996|03|26|1912|09|07}} | death_place = Stanford, California, U.S. | spouse = {{marriage|Lucile Salter|1938|1987|end=died}} | children = 4; including David Woodley, Susan and Julie | website = | awards = Sylvanus Thayer Award (1982)<br>Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988)<br>Public Welfare Medal (1989) | known_for = Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.<br>Member of Trilateral Commission. | education = Stanford University }}
'''David Packard''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|æ|k|ər|d}} {{respell|PAK|ərd}}; September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board (1964–68, 1972–93) of HP. He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard served as president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) from 1976 to 1981 and chairman of its board of regents from 1973 to 1982.<ref>{{cite web |title=Uniformed Services University |url=https://www.usuhs.edu/pres/history |website=www.usuhs.edu |access-date=2 January 2020 |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318063636/https://www.usuhs.edu/pres/history |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a member of the Trilateral Commission. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors.
==Personal life== Packard was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of Ella (Graber) and Sperry Sidney Packard, an attorney.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.packard.org/insights/news/the-sperry-s-and-ella-graber-packard-fund-for-pueblo/ | title=Packard Foundation and Caring for Colorado Foundation announce the Sperry S. And Ella Graber Packard Fund for Pueblo | work=The David and Lucile Packard Foundation | date=April 10, 2019 | last1=Guslani | first1=Amanda | access-date=April 23, 2020 | archive-date=December 18, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218134210/https://www.packard.org/insights/news/the-sperry-s-and-ella-graber-packard-fund-for-pueblo/ | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The family tree of David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (HP) |url=https://packedwithpackards.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/the-family-tree-of-david-packard-co-founder-of-hewlett-packard-hp/ |website=Packed with Packards! |date=June 8, 2018 |access-date=27 October 2019}}</ref> He attended Centennial High School, where he early on exhibited interest in science, engineering, sports, and leadership.<ref name="MBARIobit">{{cite web|url=http://www.mbari.org/about/packard.html|title=Official biography at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute|publisher=Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute|access-date=2008-09-28|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608215928/http://www.mbari.org/about/packard.html|archive-date=June 8, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Packard earned his B.A. from Stanford University in 1934, as well as letters in football and basketball. He was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society and the Alpha Delta Phi Literary Fraternity.<ref name="IEEE_Founders_Metal"/> Packard also met his future wife Lucile Salter at Stanford, in addition to Bill Hewlett.<ref name="ArchiveObit">{{cite web|url=http://obits.com/packarddavid.html |title=David Packard, 1912-1996|access-date=2008-09-28 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070207145215/http://obits.com/packarddavid.html |archive-date = 2007-02-07}}</ref> Packard briefly attended the University of Colorado at Boulder before taking a position with the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. In 1938, he returned to Stanford, where he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering later that year.<ref name="ArchiveObit"/> In the same year, he married Lucile Salter, with whom he had four children: David, Nancy, Susan, and Julie. Lucile Packard died in 1987 (age 72).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-01-mn-5377-story.html|title=Lucile S. Packard, 72, Silicon Valley Philanthropist, Dies|date=1987-06-01|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2019-04-03|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref>
== Hewlett-Packard == In 1939, Packard and Hewlett established Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Packard's garage with an initial capital investment of $538 ({{Inflation|US|538|1939|r=-2|fmt=eq|cursign=US$}}).<ref name="MBARIobit"/><ref name="ArchiveObit"/> Packard mentions in his book ''The HP Way'' that the name Hewlett-Packard was determined by the flip of a coin: HP, rather than PH.<ref name="ArchiveObit"/><ref name=PackardHPWay>{{cite book |title=HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company |last=Packard |first=David|year=1995|publisher=Collins |isbn=0-88730-817-1}}</ref> Their first product was an audio frequency oscillator, 8 of which were sold to Walt Disney Studios for testing sound equipment used to produce ''Fantasia''.<ref name="ArchiveObit"/>
The company grew into the world's largest producer of electronic testing and measurement devices.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1nnCwAAQBAJ&q=hewlett+packard+producer+of+electronic+testing+and+measuring+devices&pg=PA206|title=Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems|last1=Liker|first1=Director of the Value Chain Analysis Program and the Japan Management Program Jeffrey K.|last2=Liker|first2=Jeffrey K.|last3=Fruin|first3=W. Mark|last4=Adler|first4=Paul S.|date=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195118155|language=en}}</ref> It also became a major producer of calculators, computers, and laser and ink jet printers.<ref name="ArchiveObit"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/technology/29palm.html|title=Hewlett-Packard Agrees to Buy Palm|last1=Vance|first1=Ashlee|author-link=Ashlee Vance|date=2010-04-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-04|last2=Wortham|first2=Jenna|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
thumb|Packard's office at HP is preserved. HP incorporated in 1947, with Packard becoming its first president, serving in that role until 1964. He was then elected chief executive officer and chairman of the board, holding those positions through 1968.<ref name=HPbio>{{cite web|access-date=2008-09-20 |url=http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/packard.html |title=David Packard (1912-1996), Co-founder |work=Former Executive Bios |publisher=Hewlett-Packard}}</ref> Packard left HP in 1969 to serve in the Nixon administration until 1971, at which time he returned to HP and was re-elected chairman of the board, serving from 1972 to 1993.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/27/us/david-packard-83-pioneer-of-silicon-valley-is-dead.html|title=David Packard, 83, Pioneer Of Silicon Valley, Is Dead|last=Fisher|first=Lawrence M.|date=1996-03-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-04|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1991, Packard oversaw a major reorganization at HP. He retired from HP in 1993. At the time of his death in 1996, Packard's stake in the company was worth more than $1 billion.{{CN|date=March 2026}}
Packard was criticized for expanding into South Africa, where HP equipment was used to implement apartheid. In 1980, he presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for HP's headquarters in Johannesburg.<ref>{{cite book |author=American Friends Service Committee |author-link=American Friends Service Committee |date=1982 |title=Automating Apartheid: U.S. Computer Exports to South Africa and the Arms Embargo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmwhAQAAIAAJ |page=75 |publisher=NARMIC/American Friends Service Committee |isbn= 9780910082006}}</ref> When Nebraska became the first US state government to divest from South Africa, Packard remarked "I'd rather lose business in Nebraska than with South Africa."<ref>{{cite book |last=Knight |first=Richard |date=1990 |title=Sanctioning Apartheid |url=https://richardknight.homestead.com/files/uscorporations.htm |chapter=Sanctions, Disinvestment, and U.S. Corporations in South Africa |publisher=Africa World Press}}</ref>
At Packard's instruction,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/hall_of_fame/david_packard|title=David Packard {{!}} The Philanthropy Hall of Fame {{!}} The Philanthropy Roundtable|access-date=2017-02-21|language=en}}</ref> the domain name "HP.com" was registered on March 3, 1986, and as such was one of the earliest to be registered.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whois.com/whois/hp.com|title=hp.com Whois record|publisher=Whois.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Internet's 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/532545/oldest_domains.html |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=PCWorld |language=en}}</ref>
== Department of Defense == Upon assuming the US presidency in 1969, Richard Nixon appointed Packard United States Deputy Secretary of Defense under Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.<ref name="ArchiveObit"/> Packard resigned in December 1971<ref name=RMNacceptresignation>{{cite web|access-date=2008-09-21 |url=http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/rmn/publicpapers/1971/rn_contents_papers1971.html |quote=Letter Accepting the Resignation of David Packard as Deputy Secretary of Defense. December 11, 1971 |title=1971 |work=The Public Papers of President Richard Nixon |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080722082559/http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/rmn/publicpapers/1971/rn_contents_papers1971.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2008-07-22}}</ref><ref name="DoDresignation">{{cite web|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-accepting-the-resignation-david-packard-deputy-secretary-defense|title=Nixon Letter Accepting the Resignation of David Packard as Deputy Secretary of Defense & Packard's resignation letter|date=December 11, 1971|website=The American Presidency Project|publisher=Published by John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters [online]. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database)|access-date=March 27, 2020}}</ref> and returned to Hewlett-Packard in 1972 as chairman of the board.<ref name=":0" />
While serving in the Department of Defense (DoD), he brought concepts of resource management used in business to the military, as well as establishing the Defense Systems Management College.<ref name=ThayerAward/> In 1970, Packard issued a memorandum that contained a number of major reforms designed to address "the real mess we have on our hands."<ref name=Brown>{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Shannon A.|title=Providing the Means of War: Historical Perspectives on Defense Acquisition|date=2005|publisher=US Army Center of Military History and Industrial College of the Armed Forces|pages=145–146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u15sVIi143sC&q=%22Total%20Package%20Procurement%22&pg=PA145|access-date=4 January 2016|isbn=9780160876219}}</ref> A key reform was elimination of Robert MacNamara's Total Package Procurement except in rare situations.<ref name=Brown/>
Near the end of his time at the DoD, Packard wrote the "Packard Memo" or "Employment of Military Resources in the Event of Civil Disturbances". Enacted in February 1972, the act<ref name=Title32Part215>Title 32: National Defense – [http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=17430ea85fdd43f4d022f1cd10b97585;rgn=div5;view=text;node=32%3A2.1.1.1.18;idno=32;cc=ecfr Part 214–Employment of Military Resources in the Event of Civil Disturbances] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525070830/http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=17430ea85fdd43f4d022f1cd10b97585;rgn=div5;view=text;node=32%3A2.1.1.1.18;idno=32;cc=ecfr |date=May 25, 2009 }}, February 18, 1972.</ref> describes exceptions to the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which limited the powers of the federal government to use the U.S. military for law enforcement, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress – noting that the Constitution provides an exception when needed "to prevent loss of life or wanton destruction of property and to restore governmental functioning and public order when sudden and unexpected civil disturbances, disasters, or calamities seriously endanger life and property and disrupt normal governmental functions to such an extent that duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situations" and "to protect Federal property and Federal governmental functions when the need for protection exists and duly constituted local authorities are unable or decline to provide adequate protection".<ref name=Title32Part214.4>32 U.S.C. § 214.4 [http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=17430ea85fdd43f4d022f1cd10b97585;rgn=div5;view=text;node=32%3A2.1.1.1.18;idno=32;cc=ecfr Legal consideration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525070830/http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=17430ea85fdd43f4d022f1cd10b97585;rgn=div5;view=text;node=32%3A2.1.1.1.18;idno=32;cc=ecfr |date=May 25, 2009 }}.</ref> § 214.5 states that "employment of DoD military resources for assistance to civil authorities in controlling civil disturbances will normally be predicated upon the issuance of a Presidential Executive order or Presidential directive authorizing", with exceptions "limited to: #Cases of sudden and unexpected emergencies as described in §215.4(c)(1)(i), which require that immediate military action be taken. #Providing military resources to civil authorities as prescribed in §215.9 of this part."<ref name=Title32Part214.5>32 U.S.C. § 214.5 [http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=17430ea85fdd43f4d022f1cd10b97585;rgn=div5;view=text;node=32%3A2.1.1.1.18;idno=32;cc=ecfr#32:2.1.1.1.18.0.1.9 Policies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525070830/http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=17430ea85fdd43f4d022f1cd10b97585;rgn=div5;view=text;node=32%3A2.1.1.1.18;idno=32;cc=ecfr#32:2.1.1.1.18.0.1.9 |date=May 25, 2009 }}</ref> According to Lindorff, these exceptions reinstate the possibility of martial law in the U.S., prohibited since 1878.<ref name="Lindorff">{{cite journal |last=Lindorff |first=David |author-link=Dave Lindorff |date=April 1988 |title=Could It Happen Here? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NOcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA30 |journal=Mother Jones}}</ref>
In the 1970s and 1980s Packard was a prominent advisor to the White House on defense procurement and management. He served as chairman of The Business Council in 1973 and 1974.<ref name="business">[http://www.thebusinesscouncil.org/about/background.aspx The Business Council, Official website, Background] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213615/http://www.thebusinesscouncil.org/about/background.aspx |date=March 3, 2016 }}</ref> Packard served on the Board of Directors of the Committee on the Present Danger, established in 1976, and in March 1982 he was appointed to President Reagan's "White House Science Council".<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Tyroler II |editor1-first=Charles |title=Alerting America: The Papers of the Committee on the Present Danger |date=1984 |publisher=Pergamon-Brassey's |page=x}}</ref> From 1985 to 1986, he served as chairman of The Packard Commission.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}
== Philanthropy == From the early 1980s until his death in 1996, Packard dedicated much of his time and money to philanthropic projects.<ref>The Philanthropy Hall of Fame, [http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/hall_of_fame/david_packard David Packard]</ref> In 1964, Packard and his wife had established the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In 1986, they donated $40 million toward building what became the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University; the new hospital opened in June 1991. Prompted by his daughters Nancy and Julie, in 1978 David and Lucile had created the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation. The couple eventually donated $55 million to build the new aquarium, which opened in 1984 with Julie Packard as its executive director.<ref name="MBARIobit"/> In 1987, Packard gave $13 million to create the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.<ref name="MBARIobit"/> Packard and Hewlett made a combined donation of $77 million to Stanford in 1994,<ref>{{cite web|title=Packard and Hewlett gift to make possible new science/engineering quad|publisher=Stanford News Service|access-date=2011-11-11|url=http://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/941011Arc4100.html|date=October 11, 1994|archive-date=February 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210210114/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/941011Arc4100.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> for which the university named the David Packard Electrical Engineering Building in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Engineering memory of the month|url=http://soe.stanford.edu/about/memories/08_2009_packard.html|publisher=Stanford Engineering|access-date=November 11, 2011|date=August 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025152047/http://soe.stanford.edu/about/memories/08_2009_packard.html|archive-date=October 25, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
Packard was a member of the American Enterprise Institute's board of trustees. He died on March 26, 1996, at age 83 in Stanford, California, leaving approximately $4 billion (the bulk of his estate) to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, including large amounts of valuable real property in Los Altos Hills. All three Packard daughters sit on the foundation's board of trustees. David Woodley Packard, his son, serves as president of the Packard Humanities Institute.<ref>[http://www.packhum.org packhum.org, Packard Humanities Institute]</ref>
As of 2025, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has provided $1.2 billion to ocean research and is the leading private benefactor globally.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rogers |first1=Paul |title=Underwater robots, great white sharks and glowing jellyfish: New $50 million high-tech ship arrives to unlock ocean mysteries |url=https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/04/15/underwater-robots-great-white-sharks-and-glowing-jellyfish-new-50-million-high-tech-ship-arrives-to-unlock-ocean-mysteries/ |website=Silicon Valley |publisher=Bay Area News Group |access-date=15 July 2025 |date=15 April 2025}}</ref>
==Honors== * Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1969)<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business}}</ref> * IEEE Founders Medal along with William R. Hewlett. (1973)<ref name=IEEE_Founders_Metal>{{cite web|access-date=2009-09-03|url=http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/packard.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701175950/http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/packard.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 1, 2007|title=IEEE-David Packard, 1912-1996|author=IEEE|year=1973 |publisher=IEEE History Center}}</ref> * Gold Medal from National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. (1975)<ref>{{Cite news |date=1975-12-10 |title=Hesburgh Gets Award At Dinner |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/10/archives/hesburgh-gets-award-at-dinner.html |access-date=2023-03-16 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * Vermilye Medal from the Franklin Institute (1975)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocx4Jc12mkgC&q=david+packard+awarded+the+Vermilye+Medal+from+the+Franklin+Institute+in+1975&pg=PA512|title=International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers|last1=Lee|first1=John A. N.|last2=Lee|first2=J. A. N.|date=1995|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781884964473|language=en}}</ref> * Sylvanus Thayer Award from the United States Military Academy (1982)<ref name=ThayerAward>{{cite web|access-date=2008-10-10 |url=http://www.westpointaog.net/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=475 |title=1982 Sylvanus Thayer Award to David Packard |publisher=Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724130545/http://www.westpointaog.net/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=475 |archive-date=July 24, 2011 }}</ref> * Francis Boyer Award from the American Enterprise Institute (1986) * Vannevar Bush Award (1987) * Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame (1988) * National Medal of Technology (1988) * Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988)<ref name=PMoF_Reagan>{{cite web|access-date=2008-09-20|url=http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/101788b.htm|title=Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom|author=Reagan, Ronald|date=October 17, 1988|publisher=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111840/http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/101788b.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Packard |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/david-packard |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> * Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences (1989)<ref name=PublicWelfare>{{cite web|title=Public Welfare Award |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_pwm |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=18 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604024100/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_pwm |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref> * Member of the American Philosophical Society (1989)<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=David+Packard&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> * Lemelson-MIT Prize (1995) * Bower Award in Business Leadership, both from the Franklin Institute (1996) * Heinz Award Chairman's Medal along with William R. Hewlett. (1997)<ref>[http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/william-r-hewlett-david-packard The Heinz Awards, William R. Hewlett and David Packard profile]</ref> * Member of the California Hall of Fame (2006) * Entrepreneur Walk of Fame (2011) * The "David Packard" Lecture at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) * David Packard Hall at USU
Packard's old home and garage in Palo Alto, California were placed on the California registry of historic places as "The Birthplace of Silicon Valley".<ref name="ArchiveObit"/> He also had an oil tanker named for him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chevron-redubs-ship-named-for-Bush-aide-2922481.php|title=Chevron redubs ship named for Bush aide / Condoleezza Rice drew too much attention|last1=Marinucci|first1=Carla|last2=Writer|first2=Chronicle Political|date=2001-05-05|website=SFGate|access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref> The ''David Packard'', built in 1977, was operated for Chevron, had a capacity {{DWT|406,592|long|disp=long}} and was registered under the Bahamian flag.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}} In 2021, MBARI built a new research vessel named ''R/V David Packard'' in honor of him as their founder.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Staff |first=Marine Log |date=2021-04-21 |title=MBARI to build new flagship research vessel |language=en-US |work=Marine Log |url=https://www.marinelog.com/news/mbari-to-build-new-flagship-research-vessel/ |access-date=2023-02-23}}</ref>
==See also== * Committee on the Present Danger * David and Lucile Packard Foundation * The HP Way business philosophy * List of wealthiest foundations * Trilateral Commission
==Notes== {{Reflist|30em}}
==References== '''Articles''' * [https://ethw.org/David_Packard "David Packard"] (Biography). [https://ethw.org/ ''Engineering and Technology History Wiki'' (ETHW)] * [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/packard.html "David Packard (1912-1996), Co-founder"]. (Former Executive Bios). Hewlett-Packard. * Bruskiewich, Patrick. [https://archive.org/download/TheHpWayKnowYourInstitutionFirstHand/The_HP_Way.pdf "The HP Way—Know Your Institution First Hand"]. ''Graduate Magazine'', January 2006. (pp. 7–8)
'''Books''' * Packard, David. ''HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company''. Collins, 1995. {{ISBN|0-88730-817-1}}
'''Interviews''' * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuoc2yUJCEA "Larson Collection Interview"]. 15 March 1984. Interview by Clarence Larson. * [http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_CE591D9A13EC465A8DC2D3153CF62FC5 "One Step Forward: Interview with David Packard. War and Peace in the Nuclear Age"]. ''WGBH Open Vault'', 10 November 1986.
==External links== {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} *[http://www.hpalumni.org/hp_way.htm ''The HP Way''] – by David Packard, c. 1992 *[http://www.lpch.org/ Lucile Packard Children's Hospital] *[http://livingtrustnetwork.com/estate-planning-center/last-will-and-testament/wills-of-the-rich-and-famous/last-will-and-testament-of-david-packard.html Last will and testament of David Packard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215224638/https://www.livingtrustnetwork.com/estate-planning-center/last-will-and-testament/wills-of-the-rich-and-famous/last-will-and-testament-of-david-packard.html |date=December 15, 2018 }} *{{C-SPAN|3182}} {{s-start}} {{s-bus}} {{s-new|rows=3}} {{s-ttl|title=President of Hewlett-Packard|years=1947–71}} {{s-aft|rows=2|after=William Hewlett}} {{s-ttl|title=Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard|years=1964–71}} |- {{s-ttl|title=Chairman of Hewlett-Packard|years=1964–93}} {{s-aft|after=Lewis E. Platt}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before= Paul Nitze | title= United States Deputy Secretary of Defense | years= 1969–71 | after= Kenneth Rush }} {{s-end}}
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