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Lying in State:
On Wednesday, June 9, 2004, President Reagan's funeral procession began its slow journey to the US Capitol. There President Reagan lay in state with a guard of honor for public viewing until Friday morning, June 11. More than 100,000 people waited hours in line to pay their respects. Nancy Reagan received visitors at Blair House, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. In Washington as in California, hundreds of thousands of Americans lined the streets to bid farewell as the president's funeral procession passed by. |