Nation WATCH LIVE: George H.W. Bush Lies In State Maine Public | By NPR Staff Published December 3, 2018 at 4:54 PM EST Facebook LinkedIn Email David J. Phillip / Associated Press/PoolThe flag-draped casket of former President George H.W. Bush is carried by a joint services military honor guard to Special Air Mission 41 at Ellington Field during a departure ceremony Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in Houston. The body of former President George H.W. Bush is lying in state this week at the U.S. Capitol. The forty-first president died on Friday. Watch the remembrance ceremony live.