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...sinking California sun turned soft red and a breeze ruffled the hillside when Ronald Reagan was laid to rest on the magnificent stage created for his last bow. As the final taps floated out over the shimmering Pacific Ocean, Nancy Reagan held the flag from his casket close to her. She was worn but still resolute from the long week of farewell...
...Washington National Cathedral was filled with the world's power fraternity, including President George W. Bush and all the living former Presidents--Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Ford--and some who had tried but failed--Al Gore, Bob Dole, Walter Mondale. After the service, Reagan's casket was clamped to the floor in the back of a plane that is used as Air Force One, and he began his journey home with family, old friends and staff...
Michael W. Roberts, the secretary to the Corporation until 1998, says he recalls a discussion about urn burials versus casket burials at the plot, but he did not comment further...
...there is so much demand to be laid to rest on Harvard Hill and so little space that in 1996, the Harvard Corporation forbade almost all casket burials at the plot...
Gomes says Marquand wanted to be buried in a casket, which posed problems at Mount Auburn because of limited space...