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Donald Trump and all former US Presidents will accompany George HW Bush's national funeral on Wednesday, hailed since his death at the age of 94, as a personality who has gone beyond party boundaries. country
The Washington Cathedral is expected to host a number of foreign officials, including Prince Charles of England, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Jordanian King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, Polish President Andrzej Duda, accompanied by Lech Walesa, among others.
The ceremony, attended by Trump and his wife Melania, as well as the Bush family, including George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, is scheduled at 11 am local time.
"The life of George HW Bush embodies those that the United States really has extraordinary," wrote President Trump in a message to Congress on Monday. Monday.
Born into a wealthy family in New England, Bush led the country from 1989 to 1993, at the end of the Cold War. Gulf War. But he was defeated in the 1992 presidential election, while Bill Clinton reelected him.
The latter will be 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, with former first ladies Rosalynn Carter and Michelle Obama.
A day of national mourning, most public buildings and Wall Street will remain closed. The votes in Congress and the debates in the Supreme Court have been canceled, a strange truce in the tense political climate of the United States, where the harsh tone reigns.
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This tone seems closer to reconciliation ever since. the Texas death of the former Republican president.
George HW Bush announced in 2016 that he had not voted for Trump. The real estate mogul used harsh words against George W. Bush and Jeb Bush, another son of the deceased president, beaten by the current head of state during the Republican primaries.
Trump did not appear in April at the funeral of Barbara Bush, wife. George HW
But since the death of Patriarch Bush, the American president has abandoned the aggressive style, apparently determined to pay homage.
Trump was so anxious that he lent to the presidential plane the coffin of the plane. Texas to Washington.
The president and the first lady did not attend the solemn ceremony that was held Monday at the Capitol, but a few hours later they visited the burning chapel.
On Tuesday, the presidential couple met the Bush family at Blair House, a residence reserved for distinguished guests of the White House.
Thousands of people pbaded from Monday night to the coffin of the 41st President of the United States at Capitol Hill, where George HW Bush began his political career in the 1960s.
Son of Senator, he was also a diplomat in China, chief of the CIA and vice president of Ronald Reagan.
After a closing ceremony at the Episcopal Church of San Martin, during the ceremony at Washington Cathedral, the coffin will be brought back to Texas. Houston, the 41st president of US history, will be buried behind the George Bush Presidential Library, alongside his 73-year-old wife Barbara, and her daughter Robin, who died in the US. leukemia at the age of three years.
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