Re: Randy Berger My Answer to You About Nance

Posted by Packard53 On 2010/2/14 20:49:00

Randy: I have an interview done with John Conde who went to work for Nash in 1946 and retired from AMC in 1976. During Conde's employment with Nash he held the position of assistant director of public relations.

Conde in an interview stated that in early January 1954 that Mason requested that John L. Brown assistant to George Romney, Howard Hallis associate director of public relations along with Conde were given the following assignment.

In secret the three worked on developing a flip over chart giving a step by step plan for a possible merger that would be given to the boards of all three companies. Conde states that that the board of directors of all three companies had approved the merger in principle. However the Packard board of directors was persuaded by Nance to withdraw its approval.

Brown later told Hallas and Conde that Nance had insisted that he should be named president of the new company, Mason flatly refused to do this. That refusal lead to the withdrawal of Packard from the negotiations.

John F. Shireman