:strip_icc()/i.s3.glbimg.com/v1/AUTH_59edd422c0c84a879bd37670ae4f538a/internal_photos/bs/2018/B/G/Aj7LGyTuyO16fZMW7zCA/catedral-washington.jpg)
[ad_1]
Donald Trump and other former presidents of the United States will accompany George W. Bush's funeral Wednesday (5), rented since his death for their personality beyond the limits of the party in his country. The 41st US president died Friday at the age of 94.
The coffin containing the body of Bush's father left the Capitol earlier this afternoon and was taken to Washington Cathedral. The ceremony started at 11am local time (2pm in Brasilia). Trump must not speak at the funeral.
Prince Charles (England), German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Jordanian King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, Polish President Andrzej Duda, accompanied by Lech Walesa, are among the foreign officials who accompanied the ceremony.
Born into a wealthy family of New England in the United States, the New York Times, Bush led the country from 1989 to 1993, at the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War . But he was defeated in the 1992 presidential election – while he was seeking re-election – by Bill Clinton.
The latter is in the cathedral next to his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as two other former Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, along with former Rosalynn first ladies Carter and Michelle. Obama.
On a day of national mourning, the most public buildings and Wall Street will remain closed. Congressional voting and Supreme Court hearings have been overturned, a strange truce in the tense political climate of the United States, where the rough tone prevails nowadays.
Thousands of people have died since Monday night in front of the coffin of the 41st President of the United States at Capitol Hill, where George HW Bush began his political career in the 1960s.
ceremony in Washington Cathedral, the coffin will be brought back to Texas.
After a closing ceremony at the San Martin Episcopal Church in Houston, the former president will be buried behind the George Bush Presidential Library, with his wife Barbara, for 73 years, and Robin, his deceased daughter leukemia victim at the age of three.
Although George H. W. Bush announced in 2016 that he had not voted for Trump, the current president has adopted a tone closer to reconciliation since his death.
Trump puts aside the aggressive style, seemingly determined to pay tribute, and even lends a presidential plane to transport the coffin from Texas to Washington.
"George HW Bush led a life that embodies what the United States really has in mind." Decided during the war, President Bush was magnanimous in peacetime, "wrote President Trump on Monday in a message to Congress.
 /AUTH_59edd422c0c84a879bd37670ae4f538a/internal_photos/bs/2018/O/3/fYp9P9Tq62vRWW70wOew/bush2.jpg "Dog Sully, membre de l'ancien président Bush père, badiste à une veillée mardi (4) à Capitole - Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters")
Sully Dog, former President Bush, attends a vigil Tuesday (4) at Capitol Hill Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
The President and First Lady did not attend at the solemn ceremony held on Monday at the Capitol, but a few hours later, they made a brief visit to the chapel.
On Tuesday, the presidential couple met the Bush family, staying at Blair House, a residence reserved for distinguished guests of the White House.
Source link
