what exactly did dale earnhardt die from?
Traffic collision
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 On January 23 , 1974 , Chotiner was involved in an automobile accident on Virginia State Route 123 in McLean , Virginia , by the home of Massachusetts Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy , who heard the collision and called for an ambulance . Chotiner had suffered a broken leg , and appeared to be recovering . The evening before he was due to be discharged from the hospital , he started gasping uncontrollably , and X @-@ rays revealed a blood clot near the lungs . Treatment was unsuccessful and he died of a pulmonary embolism at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington , D.C. Gerald R. Warren , Nixon 's deputy press secretary , stated that President Nixon was " deeply saddened " by the news . 

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 Johnson had several health problems , including childhood tuberculous scrofula resulting in deep facial scarring , deafness in one ear and blindness in one eye , gout , testicular cancer , and a stroke in his final year that left him unable to speak ; his autopsy indicated that he had pulmonary fibrosis along with cardiac failure probably due to hypertension , a condition then unknown . Johnson displayed signs consistent with several diagnoses , including depression and Tourette syndrome ( TS ) . 

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 After retiring from baseball , Killebrew became a television broadcaster for several baseball teams from 1976 to 1988 , and also served as a hitting instructor for the Oakland Athletics . He also divorced and remarried during this time , moving to Arizona in 1990 and chairing the Harmon Killebrew Foundation . Killebrew was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in December 2010 , and died five months later . 

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 In October 1974 , Nixon fell ill with phlebitis , the inflammation of the walls of a vein . Told by his doctors that he could either be operated on or die , a reluctant Nixon chose surgery , and President Ford visited him in the hospital . Nixon was under subpoena for the trial of three of his former aides — Dean , Haldeman , and John Ehrlichman — and The Washington Post , disbelieving his illness , printed a cartoon showing Nixon with a cast on the " wrong foot " . Judge John Sirica excused Nixon 's presence despite the defendants ' objections . Congress instructed Ford to retain Nixon 's presidential papers — beginning a three @-@ decade legal battle over the documents that was eventually won by the former president and his estate . Nixon was in the hospital when the 1974 midterm elections were held , and Watergate and the pardon were contributing factors to the Republican loss of 43 seats in the House and three in the Senate . 

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 Later in life , Ford taught politics to the youth of Owensboro from the Owensboro Museum of Science and History , which houses a replica of his Senate office . On July 19 , 2014 , the Messenger @-@ Inquirer reported that Ford had been diagnosed with lung cancer . 
