Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon On April 22, 1994, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, died after suffering a stroke four days earlier, at the age of 81. His state funeral followed five days later at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in his hometown of Yorba Linda, California. Nixon suffered a cerebral vascular accident on April 18 at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, and was taken to New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center. After an initial favorable prognosis, Nixon slipped into a deep coma and died four days later. His body
Richard Craddock Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in West Germany in 1957 and became Director of Military Operations at the War Office in 1959. He served as Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong from 1963 to 1964, when he became GOC Western Command; he retired in 1966. In 1965 he was made Colonel of the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, becoming colonel of the Queen's Regiment in 1966 after amalgamation, a position he held until 1973. Richard Craddock Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Walter Craddock KBE CB DSO (1910–1977) was a senior officer of the British Army who achieved high office