Walter R. Tkach | |
Office: | Physician to the President |
President: | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
Term Start: | January 20, 1969 |
Term End: | September 16, 1974 |
Predecessor: | George G. Burkley |
Successor: | William M. Lukash |
Birth Name: | Walter Robert Tkach |
Birth Date: | 9 February 1917 |
Birth Place: | La Belle, Pennsylvania |
Death Place: | San Diego, California |
Walter R. Tkach (February 9, 1917 – October 31, 1989) was an American physician who served as Physician to the President under Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1974.[1]
He died of heart disease on October 31, 1989, in San Diego, California at age 72.[2]