The public will be able to pay their respects to the 39th president at the U.S. Capitol until his state funeral Thursday ...

The Capitol has a more expansive policy for lying in state. Congressman Henry Clay, in 1852, was the first to lie in the Capitol Rotunda. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover lay in the Capitol in 1972.

Now that Wednesday has arrived and the new year has officially begun, it may be safely said that in the District, few other ...