PST and will conclude with burial of the former first lady next to her husband, who died in The funeral will be held outdoors under tents at the hilltop library northwest of Los Angeles. Rain is in the forecast, but its timing is uncertain.
Nancy Reagan will be buried alongside her husband on a Southern California hilltop. Former President George W. The ceremony comes after two days of public viewing at the library, and sunny skies could give way to clouds and possibly rain before the proceedings are done.
Sections U. Science Technology Business U. I also learned courage, the nation did. The grand scale of the cathedral and the passage of time rendered some larger-than-life figures small and frail. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist shuffled slowly across the cathedral floor. The scene provided a striking tableau of former presidents sitting together, some who admired Reagan, like Gerald R.
Ford, others who challenged him. Jimmy Carter, defeated by Reagan in , listened as Thatcher implicitly criticized his administration. But even more than politics, the sight captured the mortality those men share -- all but Bill Clinton have filed their own plans for a state funeral at the same cathedral.
Reagan, wearing eyeglasses now and looking unsteady, paused before boarding the presidential jet to wave broadly at the crowd and blow a kiss. Then the plane departed in the last of what were once countless commutes from Washington, where he worked, to the Western vistas of home in California. At p. Almost guests attended the burial services, including Thatcher, California Gov.
Roosevelt, a United Nations delegate, author and prominent political figure in her own right, tried to keep the event fairly quiet, limiting the guest list to people, although those guests included President John F. Eisenhower, and future President Lyndon Johnson. More than 1, mourners jammed the streets outside the church in Hyde Park, N.
The most recent first lady's funeral was for President Gerald Ford's widow, Betty, in Some people, including Mrs. Nancy Reagan was born Anne Robbins in New York in , and later moved to Chicago and then Hollywood, where she became an actor, starring in several films. It was in Hollywood that she adopted the name Nancy Davis. Her husband was president between and He became a touchstone for conservatives — his name is by far the most-invoked by modern Republican politicians.
He died in
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