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World leaders gathered at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday.
Former President George H.W. Bush will be laid to rest Thursday in his family plot at Texas A&M University alongside his wife and daughter. A second funeral for the 41st president of the United ...
The state funeral of George H. W. Bush was the official funerary rites conducted by the government of the United States; which occurred over a period of four days from December 3 to 6, 2018. About a dozen world leaders attended the event.
George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was honored during a funeral in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
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; [42] 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 ...
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.
The Bush–Cheney ticket won the 2000 presidential election with 271 electoral votes but with only 47.9% of the popular vote, less than their opposition ticket, Gore–Lieberman, which received 48.3%. In early 2000, while serving as the CEO of Halliburton, Cheney headed then-Governor of Texas George W. Bush's vice-presidential search committee ...