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But that tone of respect will hardly negate what has been the president's overwhelmingly hostile posture towards the Bush family, the Obamas and the Clintons, both on the campaign trail and since taking office.

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While both the president and the first lady met privately with members of the Bush family Tuesday, as recently as last week, Trump shared an image with his millions of Twitter followers that called for Obama and Clinton to be jailed and investigated for \"treason.\"

Even so, the service itself did not carry some of the more political overtones present in the service for former Sen. John McCain earlier this year, which included a eulogy from McCain's daughter Meghan McCain, that seemed to take veiled shots at Trump himself.

Photos: George H.W. Bush through the years

Trump was not asked to deliver a eulogy, marking a departure from the most recent state funerals for Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, where both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton delivered eulogies as acting presidents.

As the church service ended, George W. Bush and the rest of the Bush family followed the casket out of the cathedral and watched as it was placed in the waiting hearse, which took the president's remains to Joint Base Andrews outside Washington for the flight to Texas. There, as a military band played the hymn, \"Coming Home,\" the family once again placed their hands over their hearts as the casket was loaded on the plane and they then boarded themselves.

An emotional Bush family looks on as the casket of former President George H.W. Bush is carried out of the National Cathedral. https://t.co/cKodAkVaYd #Remembering41 pic.twitter.com/FVVrNKqugj

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He was being taken home to Houston, where his body will lie in repose at the St. Martin's Episcopal Church, where Bush and his wife Barbara first became members in 1959.

There will be a funeral service at the church on Thursday before Bush's remains are transported by train to the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, where he will be interred alongside his wife and daughter, Robin, who died at age three.

Photos: Honoring former President George H.W. Bush

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