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We wish to advise everyone that we (the Living Trust Network) have a copy of David Packard's Last Will and Testament posted on our website, which we believe is of interest to anyone seeking information about the life of David Packard. We have also discussed our desire to post a link to David Packard's Last Will and Testament with Wikipedia administrators [See User talk:Livingtrust], either under "references" or "external links." Last Will and Testament of David Packard. Wikipedia does not object to the link but has requested that we not put the link up ourselves since we are a commercial website. Instead, it has requested that we make it known that the Last Will and Testament is available, and anyone who wishes to add the link to the "reference" section or the "external links" section may do so. So, we solicite your help in adding the link set forth above. Thanks. Livingtrust 03:13, 8 August 2006 (UTC) reply

After you posted this, an anonymous IP added your link to this article and many others. I have removed the link, because you need to have a consensus of editors before the link is added. Wmahan . 05:45, 11 September 2006 (UTC) reply

In following the wikilinks and doing G-searches to learn more about the "Packard Memo", I read the Posse_Comitatus_Act article and its talk page, where there is an entry on the Packard Memo. I read the applicable USC, which does not seem to support the Lindorff interpretation. I left the comment below in the talk page:

How does this legislation fit into the entirety of Packard's time in the Defense Department. Is this the only piece of legislation that he authored? (Is there another source indicating that he wrote the Act?)

— ERcheck ( talk) 17:34, 21 September 2008 (UTC) reply

• The article says he got a BA but his obit says he majored in electrical engineering, which would normally be a BS. Can this be resolved? 14:18, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

It currently says he got a Bachelor of Arts, then a Master of Science in Engineering. Although that's an unusual route to an engineering degree, it's plausible.— Quicksilver ^{T @} 20:57, 7 August 2010 (UTC) reply

• Article states Packard was a member of the "Board of Regents" -- Board of Regents of what? Stanford University? The University of California system? Something else? 172.89.246.122 ( talk) 08:49, 1 January 2020 (UTC) reply

Fixed -- Erp ( talk) 04:15, 2 January 2020 (UTC) reply

Was David Packard related to the family that owned the former Packard automobile company? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.58.251.147 ( talk) 20:18, 1 June 2010 (UTC) reply

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Would an interview with transcript with David Packard from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_CE591D9A13EC465A8DC2D3153CF62FC5 (I have a conflict of interest; otherwise I would add it myself.) Mccallucc ( talk) 14:59, 23 March 2016 (UTC) reply

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