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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Greenspan, Kissinger, Scowcroft, Dole. Average age: 82.
Awaiting President Ford's casket in the Capitol Rotunda Saturday was a tableau of elder statesmen from a political era past, some forced to stand for more than an hour in near-silence before an honor guard carried the flag-draped coffin to the center of the towering room.
Finally, the wail of the motorcade arriving drifted over the crowd of current and former members of Congress; Supreme Court justices and Cabinet members. The boom of cannons thundered into the room. The coffin was carried up the stairs and placed in repose at the door of the House chamber, whose doors were open in a salute to Ford's 25 years of service there.
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