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. Trump is not expected to speak at the service and has a fractured relationship with the Bush family. George Bush Jr was in attendance and was clearly moved by the events. 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. 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". ___ 
 
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 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is comparing the "steady hand" with which President George H.W. 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. A service was held in the rotunda after Mr Bush's coffin arrived on Monday afternoon, with members of the military serving as pallbearers. 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. President Donald Trump is among the dignitaries who plan to attend. 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. Bush will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda for a ceremony and public visitation from Monday through Wednesday. The president tweeted that he was "looking forward" to seeing the "wonderful Bush family" at a presidential guest house on Tuesday. 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 and Mrs Trump then turned and left. 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." Mr Bush, who died on Friday aged 94, will later be buried in his home state of Texas, alongside his wife, Barbara. 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.
– 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.)