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On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States and the 43rd vice president, died from vascular Parkinson's syndrome at his home in Houston, Texas. Bush was the first former U.S. president to die in nearly 12 years since Gerald Ford in 2006.
George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was honored during a funeral in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
World leaders gathered at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday.
Bush, the 41st U.S. president, died last week in Texas aged 94. “George H.W. Bush was America's last great soldier-statesman,” Jon Meacham, a presidential biographer, said in a eulogy.
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]
Following the funeral service, Bush's remains were taken by train some 80 miles (130 km) northwest to College Station for the burial alongside his wife, Barbara, who died in April, and their ...
It was Bush's third and final State of the Union Address and his fourth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker , Tom Foley , accompanied by Dan Quayle , the vice president , in his capacity as the president of the Senate .
A second funeral for the former president took place in Houston, with eulogies from longtime friend James Baker and grandson George P. Bush. 'Courage of a warrior': George H.W. Bush remembered by ...