Bob Dole saluted a fellow World War II veteran Tuesday below the Capitol dome as he rose to honor George H.W. Bush.
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Dole, the 95-year-old former Senate majority leader, relied on an aide to assist him stand on the ground of the Capitol rotunda earlier than offering his gesture beside the casket of Bush, his onetime rival in the 1998 Republican presidential primary.
Bush’s spokesman, Jim McGrath, described the salute as “a last, powerful gesture of respect from one member of the Greatest Generation, @SenatorDole, to another.”
Dole was once amongst mourners filing into the rotunda to pay respects to Bush on day two of his mendacity in state, a day that also drew Colin Powell, his former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, and Sully, the yellow Labrador who labored as the former president’s service dog.
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Bush’s remains arrived in Washington Monday afternoon aboard the blue-and-white aircraft acknowledged as Air Force One. Mourners started gathering backyard the Capitol earlier that morning.
The 41st president will probably draw more former and current leaders at his country funeral, which will take location Wednesday at the Washington National Cathedral. His son, former President George W. Bush, will supply the eulogy.
President Donald Trump has declared the day to be a national day of mourning.
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After the funeral, Bush’s stays will arrive at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for a ceremony earlier than returning to Texas for remembrances at S. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston until 7 a.m. Thursday.
He will be buried Thursday at a family plot at George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station.
