News From NPR President Bush Lies in State 91.7 WVXU | By 91.7 WVXU Published December 3, 2018 at 4:11 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Liam James Doyle / NPR 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, beginning at 4:45 p.m.