Editing Bernard Baruch (section)

==Later life and death==
Baruch was well-known and often walked or sat in Washington, D.C.'s [[Lafayette Square (Washington, D.C.)|Lafayette Park]]. A popular story exists which claims Baruch disliked being driven to the White House, and would sit on a bench and wait for a signal light indicating the President was ready to see him. This led to him being nicknamed "the Park Bench Statesman".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bernard Baruch Bench of Inspiration (U.S. National Park Service)|url=https://www.nps.gov/places/000/bernard-baruch-bench-of-inspiration.htm|access-date=2022-02-12|website=www.nps.gov|language=en}}</ref>

In 1960, on his ninetieth birthday, a commemorative park bench in Lafayette Park across from the White House was dedicated to Baruch by the [[National Capital Area Council|Boy Scouts]].<ref>{{cite web |title=President's Park (White House) – Explore the Northern Trail (U.S. National Park Service) |url=http://www.nps.gov/whho/planyourvisit/explore-the-northern-trail.htm#CP_JUMP_100770 |access-date=April 16, 2011 |website=Nps.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=August 16, 1960 |title=Baruch Bench of Inspiration |url=http://wikimapia.org/1771725/Baruch-Bench-of-Inspiration |access-date=April 16, 2011 |website=Wikimapia.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/DC-Decoder/2010/0522/Secret-Washington-Where-to-go-to-get-away-from-the-crowds |title=Secret Washington: Where to go to get away from the crowds |website=CSMonitor.com |date=May 22, 2010 |access-date=April 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120233608/http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/DC-Decoder/2010/0522/Secret-Washington-Where-to-go-to-get-away-from-the-crowds |archive-date=January 20, 2011 }}</ref> A life-size bronze of Baruch sitting on a park bench is in the lobby of [[Baruch College]]'s Vertical Campus.

He continued to advise on international affairs until his death from a heart attack on June 20, 1965 at his home in New York City, at the age of 94.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 21, 1965 |title=Bernard Baruch Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7PdRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6713,21330&dq=bernard+baruch+dies&hl=en |access-date=November 19, 2012}}</ref> His funeral at [[Temple Shaaray Tefila]], the family synagogue, was attended by 700 people.<ref>{{cite news |last=Phillips |first=Mccandlish |date=June 24, 1965 |title=700 Attend Baruch Funeral at Family Synagogue – Family Joined by Dignitaries at 15-Minute Rites Here for Financier |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0715FB345415738DDDAD0A94DE405B858AF1D3 |access-date=January 7, 2013}}</ref> His grave is at [[Flushing Cemetery]], [[Flushing, Queens]], New York City.