On the 20th anniversary of his death, the president’s confidante Monica Crowley recalls his conflicting emotions about Watergate. Richard Nixon died 20 years ago on April 22, 1994, days after suffering a stroke. The man at the center of Watergate was far different from the way he was portrayed by the press, reveals Monica Crowley (pictured at right), who worked closely with him as his foreign policy assistant for the last four years of his life.