Editing Herbert Hoover (section)

===Death===
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[[File:Herbert Hoover Presidential Library 009.jpg|thumb|right|The gravesite of Herbert and [[Lou Henry Hoover]]]]
Hoover faced three major illnesses during the last two years of his life, including an August 1962 operation in which a growth on his [[large intestine]] was removed.{{sfn|Whyte 2017|pp=606–607}}<ref name=Hoover90NYT>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/10/archives/hoover-marks-90th-year-today-predicts-new-gains-for-nation-because.html| title=Hoover Marks 90th Year Today; Predicts New Gains for Nation Because of Its Freedoms| newspaper=The New York Times| date=August 10, 1964| access-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref> He died in New York City on October 20, 1964, following massive [[internal bleeding]].<ref>{{Cite news| title=Herbert Hoover Is Dead; Ex-President, 90, Served Country in Varied Fields| last=Phillips| first=McCandlish| date=October 21, 1964|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0810.html| publisher=The Learning Network: [[The New York Times]] on the web| access-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref><ref name=bbupidan>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FzxYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aPcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1272%2C2733112 |work=The Bulletin |location=(Bend, Oregon) |agency=UPI |last=Justice |first=Charles J. |title=Ex-President Herbert Hoover dead at 90 |date=October 20, 1964 |page=1}}</ref><ref name=hdanali>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wH1IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g2wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5537%2C2967559 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |agency=Associated Press |last=Everett |first=Arthur |title=Hoover dies at 90 after long illness |date=October 21, 1964 |page=1}}</ref> Though Hoover's last spoken words are unknown, his last-known written words were a get-well message to his friend former President Harry S. Truman, six days before his death, after he heard that Truman had sustained injuries from slipping in a bathroom:<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mancini |first1=Mark |title=Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover: An Unlikely Friendship |url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/52420/harry-truman-and-herbert-hoover-unlikely-friendship |website=Mentalfloss.org |date=August 30, 2013 |publisher=Mentalfloss |access-date=April 6, 2019}}</ref>  {{blockquote|"Bathtubs are a menace to ex-presidents for as you may recall a bathtub rose up and [[Fractured vertebra|fractured my vertebrae]] when I was in [[Venezuela]] on your world famine mission in 1946. My warmest sympathy and best wishes for your recovery."}}Two months earlier on August 10, Hoover reached the age of 90,<ref name=bbaugtn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=M_hYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TvcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1352%2C5635225 |work=The Bulletin |location=(Bend, Oregon) |agency=UPI |last=Wilson |first=Lyle |title=Hoover, 90 years today, wants no honors |date=August 10, 1964 |page=4}}</ref><ref name=pipgnin>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NtgNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yGwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7143%2C1046713 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |agency=Associated Press |last=Daniell |first=Raymond |title=Hoover marking 90th birthday |date=August 10, 1964 |page=7}}</ref> only the second U.S. president (after [[John Adams]]) to do so. When asked how he felt on reaching the milestone, Hoover replied, "Too old."<ref name=Hoover90NYT/> At the time of his death, Hoover had been out of office for over 31 years ({{age in days|1933|3|4|1964|10|20|format=commas}} days all together). This was the longest retirement in presidential history, surpassing Adams' 25 years, until [[Jimmy Carter]] broke that record in September 2012.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=John| last=Dillon| title=The Record-Setting Ex-Presidency of Jimmy Carter| url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/the-record-setting-ex-presidency-of-jimmy-carter/262143/| magazine=[[The Atlantic]]| publisher=[[Emerson Collective]]|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=September 9, 2012|access-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref>

President [[Lyndon Johnson]] ordered flags flown at half-staff and was among the 500 guests invited for the funeral service held at [[St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church]], Other dignitaries included former Vice President Nixon, Representative [[William E. Miller]], Governor [[Nelson Rockefeller]], former Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Attorney General [[Robert F. Kennedy]], former Postmaster General [[James A. Farley]], Rear Admiral [[Lewis L. Strauss]] and Senators [[Hubert H. Humphrey]], [[Barry Goldwater]], [[Kenneth Keating]], and [[Jacob Javits]]. 

Hoover was honored with a [[State funerals in the United States|state funeral]] in which he [[lying in state#United States|lay in state]] in the [[United States Capitol rotunda]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.aoc.gov/nations-stage/lying-state-honor| title=Lying in State or in Honor | publisher=Architect of the Capitol| location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref> President Johnson and First Lady [[Lady Bird Johnson]] attended, but former presidents Truman and Eisenhower were both too ill to attend. Then, on October 25, he was buried in West Branch, Iowa, near his [[Presidential library system|presidential library]] and birthplace on the grounds of the [[Herbert Hoover National Historic Site]]. Afterwards, Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, who had been buried in Palo Alto, California, following her death in 1944, was re-interred beside him.<ref>{{cite web| title=Gravesite| website=nps.gov| url=https://www.nps.gov/heho/learn/historyculture/gravesite.htm| publisher=National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior| access-date=March 25, 2019}}</ref> Hoover was the last surviving member of the Harding and Coolidge cabinets. [[John Nance Garner]] (the speaker of the House during the second half of Hoover's term) was the only person in Hoover's [[United States presidential line of succession]] he did not outlive.

The state funeral was the third in a span of twelve months, following those of [[State funeral of John F. Kennedy|President John F. Kennedy]] and [[General of the Army]] [[Douglas MacArthur]]. [[Black Jack (horse)|Black Jack]] was the riderless horse in all three funerals.