text: The hearse carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush arrives at the Capitol, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP) (Associated Press) 
   
   The hearse carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush arrives at the Capitol, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP) (Associated Press) 
   
   WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on events related to late former President George H.W. Bush (all times local): 
   
   8:35 p.m. 
   
   President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have paid their respects to former President George H.W. Bush at the U.S. Capitol. 
   
   The nation's 41st president is lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda. The Trumps stood in front of the casket Monday evening with their eyes closed for a few moments. 
   
   After Trump saluted the casket, the pair walked out. 
   
   Trump skipped an earlier service at the Capitol, where Bush was eulogized by Vice President Mike Pence, among others. 
   
   Trump plans to attend Bush's state funeral Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. 
   
   Trump has a fractured relationship with the Bush family, whom he has repeatedly criticized. But he has praised Bush since his passing as "just a high-quality man who truly loved his family" and a "terrific guy" who will be missed. 
   
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   8:30 p.m. 
   
   President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have arrived at the U.S. Capitol to pay their respects to former President George H.W. Bush. 
   
   The body of the nation's 41st president is lying in state at the U.S. Capitol until Wednesday morning. 
   
   Trump skipped an earlier service at the Capitol, where Bush was eulogized by Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan, among others. 
   
   Trump plans to attend Bush's state funeral Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. 
   
   Trump is not expected to speak at the service and has a fractured relationship with the Bush family. But he has praised Bush since his passing as "just a high-quality man who truly loved his family" and a "terrific guy" who will be missed. 
   
   Bush died Friday at his home in Houston. He was 94. 
   
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   8:15 p.m. 
   
   Several hundred people have gathered in downtown Houston for a memorial to former President George H.W. Bush, a beloved figure in his adopted hometown. 
   
   The ceremony Monday night took place in front of Houston's City Hall, bathed in lights of red, white, and blue. 
   
   City organizers encouraged Houston residents to wear their boldest socks in a nod to Bush's well-known sartorial tradition. 
   
   Michael Meaux (moh), who worked in the U.S. State Department for Bush's son, former President George W. Bush, wore a pair of hot-pink socks that he laughingly said he had owned for a long time but had never worn before. 
   
   The Houston resident called Bush "the last gentleman president that we've had." 
   
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   5:50 p.m. 
   
   Vice President Mike Pence has offered the nation's condolences to the family of the late former President George H.W. Bush. 
   
   He also thanked Bush's family for sharing "this special man" with the country and the world. 
   
   The vice president says Bush left America and the world "more peaceful, prosperous and secure." 
   
   He spoke of first meeting Bush as a 29-year-old entering politics and of a letter his son, an enlisted Marine, received from Bush. Pence's son had just completed a landing on the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier and Pence wrote to Bush. Bush sent a signed photograph and letter. 
   
   Pence spoke at a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, where Bush will lie in state through Wednesday. 
   
   Bush died Friday at his home in Houston. He was 94. 
   
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   5:40 p.m. 
   
   Vice President Mike Pence says former President George H.W. Bush's example will always inspire and his lifetime of public service will be enshrined in the hearts of the American people. 
   
   Pence says Bush never failed to answer the call to serve his country. 
   
   Pence is speaking in the Capitol Rotunda as lawmakers, Supreme Court justices and former members of his administration pay their respects to the nation's 41st president. 
   
   Bush also served as vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan. Pence says Bush joked there was "nothing substantive to do at all" going into that job. 
   
   But Pence says Bush set the standard as "a sound counselor and loyal adviser to an outsider who came to Washington, D.C., to shake things up, cut taxes, rebuild the military, and together they did just that." 
   
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   5:30 p.m. 
   
   House Speaker Paul Ryan praised George H.W. Bush as a "great patriot," and the first president he had been able to cast a ballot for as a young man. 
   
   Ryan said Monday, "Here lies a great man." 
   
   The Wisconsin Republican was delivering remarks during a ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda where Bush will lie in state, an honor reserved for few. The former president died Friday. 
   
   Ryan says Bush's character was "second to none." 
   
   He says Bush lived his life with "a fundamental decency that resonates across generations." 
   
   Ryan says Bush's presidential campaign in 1988 first drew him to politics. He said Bush showed other political leaders that "how we live is as important as what we achieve." 
   
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   5:20 p.m. 
   
   Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is comparing the "steady hand" with which President George H.W. Bush kept his bomber under control when it was shot down during World War II with the way he guided the country. 
   
   McConnell says Bush "kept us on course" as the Kentucky Republican delivered a eulogy for the late president at a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday. Bush's flag-covered casket lay in state as McConnell spoke. 
   
   Bush's aircraft was shot down in 1944 over the Pacific. He completed his bombing mission before bailing out. 
   
   McConnell says Bush "kept us flying high and challenged us to fly higher still" as he steered the U.S. through the end of the Cold War and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. 
   
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   4:40 p.m. 
   
   The casket carrying the remains of George H.W. Bush has arrived at the U.S. Capitol for the nation to begin its formal farewell to the 41st president. 
   
   His remains arrived Monday afternoon at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington aboard an aircraft that often serves as Air Force One. Former President George W. Bush, the eldest of the four Bush sons, and his wife, Laura, along with brother Neil Bush and his family, were aboard the plane for the trip from Houston. 
   
   Following a short service Monday afternoon, the president's remains will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda until Wednesday morning. 
   
   Bush died Friday in Houston at age 94. An invitation-only funeral service is set for Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. President Donald Trump is among the dignitaries who plan to attend. 
   
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   4:10 p.m. 
   
   The body of former President George H.W. Bush is heading toward the U.S. Capitol following a brief ceremony at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington. 
   
   Bush's flag-draped casket was unloaded from the presidential plane and brought to a hearse by an honor guard as a military band played "Hail to the Chief." 
   
   Bush's son, former President George W. Bush, descended from the plane with his wife, Laura, and other family members. Others including Jeb Bush were already waiting on the tarmac. 
   
   Bush will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda for a ceremony and public visitation from Monday through Wednesday. An invitation-only funeral service will follow at Washington National Cathedral before his casket returns to Houston for burial. 
   
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   3:25 p.m. 
   
   A military aircraft carrying the remains of former President George H.W. Bush has arrived at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, as the nation's capital prepares to honor the 41st president. 
   
   A formation of Navy sailors and Air Force personnel stood at attention as the plane touched down. The sailors assembled were from the USS George H. W. Bush, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier. A group of about 100 civilian dignitaries and well-wishers also were on hand. 
   
   Bush will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda for a ceremony and public visitation from Monday through Wednesday. An invitation-only funeral service will follow at Washington National Cathedral before his casket returns to Houston for burial. 
   
   President Donald Trump, who will attend the funeral service in Washington, has ordered the federal government closed Wednesday for a national day of mourning. 
   
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   12:10 p.m. 
   
   A military aircraft carrying the remains of former President George H.W. Bush has taken off and is flying from Houston to Washington for official mourning ceremonies, including a state funeral. 
   
   Pallbearers carried Bush's casket from a hearse across the tarmac to a presidential plane commonly known as Air Force One. For the task of transporting Bush's body on Monday, the plane has been renamed Special Air Mission 41, the number being a reference to Bush's place in the roster of America's presidents. 
   
   A military band played "Hail to the Chief." An American flag and one with the presidential seal flew nearby. 
   
   Bush's son former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush, were among those relatives and Bush friends who walked to the aircraft shortly after the body was loaded aboard. 
   
   George H.W. Bush died Friday in Houston at age 94. 
   
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   11:45 a.m. 
   
   George H.W. Bush's remains have made the journey from a Houston funeral home to Ellington Field, where a presidential aircraft will carry them to Washington for a state funeral. 
   
   Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, one of George H.W. Bush's grandsons, was among more than 100 invited guests seeing off Bush's remains on Monday. The guests are set to witness a ceremony including a military band and a 21-gun salute. 
   
   Angela Savage one of the people who stood outside the funeral home to watch the passing of the hearse carrying Bush's casket as it headed to Ellington Field. She called it "a once-in-a-lifetime kind of event." 
   
   Savage describes what she saw as "amazing and very respectful," adding, "I feel like that's what he deserves." 
   
   Bush died Friday in Houston at age 94. 
   
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   11:25 a.m. 
   
   More than 100 invited guests have gathered at Houston's Ellington Field for a ceremony to send off the casket of former President George H.W. Bush to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. 
   
   The guests stood next to the tarmac at Ellington Field on Monday and awaited the arrival of the hearse with Bush's casket. 
   
   The guests and Bush family members are to attend a ceremony that will include a military band and a 21-gun salute. 
   
   The guests stood near the U.S. military plane that's more commonly known as Air Force One. For the task of transporting Bush's body, the plane has been renamed Special Air Mission 41, the number being a reference to Bush's place in the roster of America's presidents. 
   
   Bush died Friday in Houston at age 94. An invitation-only funeral service is set for Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. 
   
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   10:45 a.m. 
   
   A hearse carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush has left a Houston funeral home. 
   
   The casket was draped in an American flag and was carried by six pallbearers on Monday morning. It was placed into a hearse headed to Houston's Ellington Field, where a presidential aircraft waited to carry Bush's body to Washington for a state funeral. 
   
   The hearse was part of a motorcade escorted by Houston police officers on motorcycles. 
   
   Bush died Friday in Houston at age 94. 
   
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   10:35 a.m. 
   
   A spokeswoman confirms former President Jimmy Carter plans to attend the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush. 
   
   Rosalynn Carter will not attend. The 91-year-old former first lady has limited her travels in recent months. 
   
   With Bush's death, Jimmy Carter becomes the oldest living former president, at age 94. Both men were born in 1924, Bush on June 12, Carter on Oct. 1. 
   
   Bush served as CIA director when Carter first ran for president 1976. Carter replaced Bush with Stansfield Turner. 
   
   Four years later, Bush joined the Ronald Reagan Republican ticket that routed Carter in the 1980 presidential election. 
   
   Bush died Friday in Houston at age 94. An invitation-only funeral service is set for Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. 
   
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   10:20 a.m. 
   
   Secret Service personnel who had been assigned to protecting George H.W. Bush are serving as honorary pallbearers as his remains begin making their way from Houston to a state funeral in Washington. 
   
   The former president's spokesman, Jim McGrath, tweeted Monday that for "this first movement in Houston" members of "the current @SecretService Bush Protective Division will serve as honorary pallbearers." 
   
   Bush died at his Houston home on Friday at age 94. His remains are scheduled to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Monday afternoon and later will begin lying in state at the U.S. Capitol. 
   
   On Wednesday morning, a motorcade will take the remains to a state funeral at the National Cathedral. 
   
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   9:20 a.m. 
   
   Houston is honoring George H.W. Bush with a City Hall tribute and urging people who attend to dress in colorful socks, a nod to one of the former president's favorite fashion accessories. 
   
   Mayor Sylvester Turner is hosting Monday evening's event featuring music and community leaders in front of City Hall. Turner tweeted that those in attendance should "wear their own colorful socks." 
   
   Bush often sported bright socks, sometimes with loud, unusual patterns. He died Friday at his Houston home at age 94, and his body is heading to Washington for a state funeral. 
   
   Spokesman Jim McGrath tweeted Monday that Bush "will be carried to his final rest" wearing gray socks saluting the Armed Forces and paying "tribute to his lifetime of service," starting as an 18-year-old "naval aviator in war." 
   
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   1:35 a.m. 
   
   George H.W. Bush is set to embark on his final tour of Washington as a nation prepares to bid farewell to its 41st president. 
   
   His remains will arrive in Washington on Monday, and he will lie in state at the Capitol through Wednesday. An invitation-only funeral service is set for Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral, to be attended by President Donald Trump and other dignitaries. 
   
   Bush will then be returned to Houston for burial Thursday at his presidential library at Texas A&M University. 
   
   He will be laid to rest alongside Barbara Bush, his wife of 73 years who died in April, and Robin Bush, the daughter who died of leukemia at age 3. 
   
   Bush was president from 1989 to 1993. He died Friday in Houston at age 94. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption President Trump visits George HW Bush's coffin lying in state at the US Capitol 
   
   US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have paid their respects to President George HW Bush as he lies in state at the US Capitol. 
   
   Mr Trump made a brief visit to the rotunda, where the public can visit the coffin until the funeral on Wednesday. 
   
   Mr Trump has in the past clashed with the Bush family but will attend the funeral service. 
   
   Mr Bush, who died on Friday aged 94, will later be buried in his home state of Texas, alongside his wife, Barbara. 
   
   His coffin had earlier left Texas to a 21-gun salute and was carried to Washington on board Air Force One - temporarily renamed Special Air Mission 41 in homage to the late president. 
   
   Mr Bush, who served as the 41st US president between 1989 and 1993, had been receiving treatment for a form of Parkinson's disease and had been admitted to hospital with a blood infection in April. 
   
   An extended salute 
   
   BBC North America reporter Anthony Zurcher, Capitol Hill 
   
   Three hours after an assemblage of officials, dignitaries, family and friends welcomed the coffin of President George HW Bush to the US Capitol, the current president and first lady made a mid-evening visit to pay their respects. 
   
   The motorcade took only a few minutes to travel down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. At 20:30 (01:30 GMT on Tuesday) Donald and Melania Trump arrived inside what was now a relatively empty Capitol rotunda. Members of the five branches of the US military continued to stand to attention, as the two approached the flag-draped coffin. 
   
   The president gave an extended salute and the first lady put her hand over her heart. The only sound in the massive, marbled room - where 32 people, including 12 presidents, have lain in state - was the steady whirr of press cameras. 
   
   Mr and Mrs Trump then turned and left. In all, the president was away from the White House less than half an hour, without a word to the public or press. 
   
   The president tweeted that he was "looking forward" to seeing the "wonderful Bush family" at a presidential guest house on Tuesday. 
   
   He added that Mrs Trump would be giving former First Lady Laura Bush a tour of the White House Christmas decorations. 
   
   Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Sully visits George HW Bush's coffin at US Capitol 
   
   The public will be able to pay respects at the rotunda until Wednesday's invitation-only funeral service at the National Cathedral. 
   
   Prince Charles will be attending the funeral, representing the Queen, Clarence House announced on Tuesday. 
   
   Mr Trump will attend with Melania but will not deliver a speech. 
   
   According to Mark Updegrove's book The Last Republicans, which came out last year, Mr Bush voted for Mr Trump's opponent Hillary Clinton in the election and had called Mr Trump a "blowhard". 
   
   Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption George W Bush struggled to hold back his emotions as his father's coffin passed him by 
   
   His son, former President George W Bush, worried he would be the "last Republican president", despite Mr Trump running on the party's ticket, the book said. 
   
   A service was held in the rotunda after Mr Bush's coffin arrived on Monday afternoon, with members of the military serving as pallbearers. George Bush Jr was in attendance and was clearly moved by the events. 
   
   Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption George HW Bush's body is taken to Washington on board Air Force One 
   
   In a eulogy, House Speaker Paul Ryan said: "Here lies a great man", adding that "no-one better harmonised the joy of life and the duty of life". 
   
   Mr Ryan said Mr Bush was a "great leader and a good man, a gentle soul of firm resolve". 
   
   Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said: "Through the Cold War and the Soviet Union's collapse, he kept us on course. When the rule of law needed defending in the Persian Gulf, he kept us on course." 
   
   Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A look back at the life of George Bush Senior 
   
   Vice-President Mike Pence said there was a "kindness about the man that was evident to everyone who met him". 
   
   George HW Bush was a decorated fighter pilot in World War Two, a head of the CIA and vice-president to Ronald Reagan before being elected president in 1988. 
   
   Also making the final journey with President Bush was his loyal labrador service dog, Sully. 
   
   Mr Bush's spokesman, Jim McGrath, tweeted a picture of Sully with the coffin, with the caption: "Mission complete."
target: – President Trump paid his respects Monday after George HW Bush arrived at the Capitol for the final time. The 45th president—who skipped an earlier service—visited the 41st president as he was lying in state, the AP reports. The president, who traveled down Pennsylvania Avenue in a motorcade, saluted the flag-draped coffin and Melania Trump put her hand over her heart. They turned and left after the brief visit. "In all, the president was away from the White House less than half an hour, without a word to the public or press," says Anthony Zurcher at the BBC. The former president died Friday at age 94. Trump is expected at his state funeral Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral. (Bush will be buried in a very fitting pair of socks.)