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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]
President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and other civilians who have rendered distinguished ...
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 USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the tenth and last Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, was named for Bush. [49] [50] In 2004, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation presented the Profile in Courage Award to Bush and Mount Vernon awarded him its first Cyrus A. Ansary Prize. [51]