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 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 in the 1960s. Educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Richard Craddock was commissioned into the Royal East Kent Regiment (Buffs) in 1930. He served in the Second World War, initially in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the Battle of France; in 1943 he was a member of the Prime Minister Winston Churchill's delegation to Washington, D.C., Quebec, and Cairo. In 1944 he became Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers,