Nation's Capital Prepares Solemn Ceremony for Late President Ford
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WASHINGTON — In a state funeral for the president who only wanted to be speaker of the House, Gerald R. Ford's casket will return to the Congress he served on his historic journey to an unelected presidency.
Ford will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda, where 10 other presidents have been honored. But he also will lie in repose outside the chambers of the House -- where he honed his leadership skills -- and the Senate, where -- as vice president -- he served in his constitutional role as the chamber's president.
Ceremonies begin Friday in a California church, followed by a flight across the country Ford sought to heal after the trauma of Watergate and the resignation of his disgraced predecessor, Richard Nixon.
The mourning ends five days later with Ford's entombment on a hillside near his Grand Rapids, Mich., presidential museum.
WASHINGTON — In a state funeral for the president who only wanted to be speaker of the House, Gerald R. Ford's casket will return to the Congress he served on his historic journey to an unelected presidency.
Ford will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda, where 10 other presidents have been honored. But he also will lie in repose outside the chambers of the House -- where he honed his leadership skills -- and the Senate, where -- as vice president -- he served in his constitutional role as the chamber's president.
Ceremonies begin Friday in a California church, followed by a flight across the country Ford sought to heal after the trauma of Watergate and the resignation of his disgraced predecessor, Richard Nixon.
The mourning ends five days later with Ford's entombment on a hillside near his Grand Rapids, Mich., presidential museum.
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