Funeral Home Departure

A military honor guard carries the casket of former President Ronald Reagan from a funeral home in Santa Monica, Calif., June 7, 2004. Nancy Reagan, back left, is escorted by Maj. Gen. Galen B. Jackman.

Emma Friedenberg, 4, of Santa Monica, Calif., waits for military pallbearers to carry the casket of former President Ronald Reagan from a funeral home in Santa Monica, Calif., June 7, 2004.

Nancy Reagan, center, is joined by her children Ron Reagan, left, and Patti Davis as they look over hundreds of flags, flowers and messages in honor of former President Ronald Reagan at a funeral home in Santa Monica, Calif., June 7, 2004.

Military pallbearers carry the flag-draped coffin of former President Ronald Reagan from a Los Angeles funeral home to a waiting hearse in Santa Monica, Calif., June 7, 2004.

Ron Reagan, back to camera, talks with Hollywood mogul Merv Griffin, center right, at a funeral home in Santa Monica, Calif., June 7, 2004. Others in photo are unidentified.

Two firefighters hang a huge United States flag over the 405 freeway in Los Angeles before the hearse carrying former President Ronald Reagan passes on the way to the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Vally, Calif., Monday, June 7, 2004. Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects to the former president, who will lie in state at the library through Tuesday.

Members of the Los Angeles City Fire Department salute along with members of the public as the hearse carrying the body of former President Ronald Reagan heads up the 118 Ronald Reagan Freeway in Simi Valley, Calif., June 7, 2004.

Members of the Los Angeles City Fire Department salute along with members of the public as the hearse carrying the body of former President Ronald Reagan heads up the 118 Ronald Reagan Freeway in Simi Valley, Calif., June 7, 2004.

Simi Valley police officers salute the hearse carrying the body of former President Ronald Reagan as it arrives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., June 7, 2004.