I think every President stands on their own accomplishments. President George H. W. Bush was an incredible diplomatic leader.

This chronicle of President Bush's final journey is from New Zealand. He made a rather incredible impact on the global community which he liked to call, "The Family of Nations." He held that idea as a way of stating every country could have the same opportunities for it's people as the USA. He never gave up on the hope someday peace would also bring an economic advantage to every country welcoming it. I think I know what he would be saying about some of today's global events.


3 December 2018

Former US President George H.W. Bush looks out of the cab of Union Pacific locomotive 4141 at its 2005 unveiling in College Station, Texas. 

...Bush's body (click here) will be transported by a motorcade Monday morning from a Houston funeral home to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, a Texas Air National Guard base. The casket will be loaded onto a plane during a departure ceremony and flown to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Relatives accompanying the casket will include his sons, former President George W. Bush and Neil Bush, with members of their immediate families. The rest of the Bush family is expected to be at Joint Base Andrews when the body arrives.

In Washington, Bush will lie in state in the rotunda of the US Capitol tomorrow and Wednesday. His casket will be transported by motorcade on Thursday to the National Cathedral, where a state funeral will be held at 5am NZT.

US President Donald Trump has indicated that he and first lady Melania Trump will attend the state funeral. Trump has said he plans to designate Thursday as a national day of mourning....