Post 946

USA: The New York Times > Wash­ing­ton > Can­nons Echo as Wash­ing­ton Drills for a State Funeral: “A state funeral, a rite of col­lec­tive national mourn­ing to which only pres­i­dents, presidents-elect and for­mer pres­i­dents are auto­mat­i­cally enti­tled, is so elab­o­rate and intri­cately chore­o­graphed that exten­sive rehearsals are essen­tial � espe­cially since state funer­als are held so infre­quently. The last one in Wash­ing­ton was for for­mer Pres­i­dent Lyn­don B. John­son in Jan­u­ary 1973.”

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