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On [[June 11]], a [[Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan|major state funeral]] was conducted in the [[Washington National Cathedral]], and presided over by President [[George W. Bush]]. Eulogies included those from former British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]], former Canadian Prime Minister [[Brian Mulroney]], and both Presidents Bush. The service drew leaders and dignitaries from around the world, including the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the former [[Soviet Union]], [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], German Chancellor [[Gerhard Schröder]], Italian Prime Minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]], [[Hamid Karzai]] of Afghanistan, and [[Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer|Ghazi al-Yawer]] of Iraq.

After the funeral service, the Reagan entourage was flown back to [[California]]—to the [[Ronald Reagan Presidential Library]]—where another service was held, and President Ronald Reagan was interred. He is the second longest-lived president in U.S. history, 45 days behind [[Gerald Ford]], and was the first United States president to die in the [[21st century]]. The state funeral was the first since that of [[LBJ|Lyndon B. Johnson]] in [[1973]], as [[Richard Nixon]], the last president to die, who presided over that funeral, did not have a state funeral on his family's wishes.

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