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The nation bade farewell Wednesday to the man who was America’s 41st president and the last president to fight for the U.S. in wartime.
World leaders gathered at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday.
Shortly after news broke of Bush's death, President Donald Trump declared a national day of mourning and ordered all flags "throughout the United States and its territories and possessions" lowered to half staff for 30 days after his death. Bush's state funeral was the official funerary rites conducted by the U.S. government, which occurred ...
This photo provided by the office of former President George H.W. Bush shows Bush, center, with past presidents and first ladies at the funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush in ...
After the funeral, Bush's body was transported to George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, where he was buried next to his wife Barbara and daughter Robin. [324] At the funeral, former president George W. Bush eulogized his father saying, "He looked for the good in each person, and he usually found it." [323]
Former President George H. W. Bush then spoke, his voice breaking at one point when describing Reagan; [44] Bush had been Reagan's Vice President from 1981 to 1989, and his successor as president. His son, President George W. Bush, was the last to give a eulogy, saying in part, "Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he ...
At Jimmy Carter's state funeral at Washington National Cathedral today, all five living U.S. presidents—current and former—were in attendance: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...