Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon

===Funeral service===
The funeral service was held on Wednesday, April 27, on the grounds of the Nixon Library. The service was attended by over 4,000 people, including family members, President [[Bill Clinton]] and his wife [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]], former Presidents and First Ladies [[George H.W. Bush|George]] and [[Barbara Bush]], [[Ronald Reagan|Ronald]] and [[Nancy Reagan]], [[Jimmy Carter|Jimmy]] and [[Rosalynn Carter]], and [[Gerald Ford|Gerald]] and [[Betty Ford]].<ref name="nl"/> Former Vice President [[Spiro Agnew]], who served with Nixon throughout most of his presidency, also attended along with former Vice President [[Dan Quayle]]. Former First Ladies [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] and [[Lady Bird Johnson]] both did not attend due to illness (Onassis died three weeks later from non-Hodgkin lymphoma). A congressional delegation consisting of over one hundred members was present, and a foreign diplomatic corps of over two hundred.<ref name="nl"/> Other members of Nixon's administration who attended included [[Elliot Richardson]], [[James R. Schlesinger]], [[William P. Rogers]], [[James Thomas Lynn]], [[George W. Romney]], [[Alexander Haig]], [[Herbert Stein]], and [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]. Other guests included Nixon's opponent in the 1972 election [[George McGovern]], [[Charles Colson]], who served time in prison due to his part in the Watergate Scandal, [[Robert Abplanalp]], [[Bebe Rebozo]], and California State Assembly Speaker [[Willie Brown (politician)|Willie Brown]].<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/27/us/37th-president-dignitaries-list-overseas-guests-for-nixon-s-funeral-short.html|title = THE 37TH PRESIDENT: DIGNITARIES; List of Overseas Guests for Nixon's Funeral is Short|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 27 April 1994|last1 = Apple|first1 = R. W. Jr.|access-date = 27 December 2020|archive-date = 10 October 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161010181533/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/27/us/37th-president-dignitaries-list-overseas-guests-for-nixon-s-funeral-short.html|url-status = live}}</ref>

International guests included: 
*{{flag|United Nations}}: Secretary General of the United Nations [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]]
*{{flag|People's Republic of China}}: Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China [[Zou Jiahua]] 
*{{flag|Russia}}: Deputy Prime Minister of Russia [[Alexander Shokhin]]
*{{flag|Canada}}: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada [[Lloyd Axworthy]]
*{{flag|United Kingdom}}: former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [[Edward Heath]]
*{{flag|Japan}}: former Prime Minister of Japan [[Toshiki Kaifu]]
*{{Flag|Israel}}: former President of Israel [[Chaim Herzog]]

The service was officiated by the Reverend [[Billy Graham]], a friend of Richard Nixon's, who called him "one of the most misunderstood men, and I think he was one of the greatest men of the century."<ref name="wapo"/> Eulogies were delivered by Graham, [[Henry Kissinger]], Senator [[Bob Dole]], California Governor [[Pete Wilson]] and President Clinton.<ref name="nl"/> Dole could not hold back his tears at the end of his speech.<ref>{{youTube|wUQfKrt8p40|Bob Dole weeps at Nixon funeral}}</ref>

Following the service, Nixon was buried beside his wife; Pat had died on June 22, 1993. They are buried only steps away from [[Richard Nixon birthplace|Richard Nixon's birthplace]] and boyhood home.

His funeral also marked the last major public appearance of former President Ronald Reagan, whose [[Alzheimer's disease]] was announced in November later that year.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-07-11 |title=The American Experience {{!}} Reagan {{!}} Book Excerpt {{!}} Lou Cannon |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/sfeature/excerptcannon.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030711112601/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/sfeature/excerptcannon.html |archive-date=2003-07-11 |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=PBS}}</ref> Reagan would become the next former president to die, ten years later, [[Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan|on June 5, 2004]].