Bush\'s casket arrives at U.S. Capitol

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) The body of former U.S. President George H.W.

Bush arrived on Monday in Washington, on a final trip to the U.S. Capitol where mourners will pay tribute to the man who led the nation as the Cold War ended.

The 41st president's flag-draped casket was unloaded from Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, and honored with a 21-gun salute and the solemn notes of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." The Bush family, led by son and former President George W.

Bush, accompanied the patriarch's body on the flight from Texas and on its trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol.

The body of the Republican former president will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda from Monday through Wednesday, when a state funeral is scheduled at the National Cathedral.