European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 28, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3 United an Honor guard carries the casket of former president Nixon upon the coffin s arrival aboard air Force one at Eltoro Marine corps air station in Santa Ana calif., on tuesday. Nixon from Page 1 the same Blue and White Jet that brought him Back to California after he resigned in disgrace nearly 20 years ago in the Wake of the watergate scandal. He died Friday in new York at age 81 after a  estimated 42,000 people filed past the closed casket at the Richard Nixon Library Birthplace on wednesday before Public viewing ended at 11 . Some had waited in line for hours As temperatures fell below 50  funeral was to be wednesday of  hours before the viewing ended officials were discouraging people from joining the line because they would t make i through before the closing time. But the crowd showed no signs of letting up. Bruce Mahaffey and his wife Irene said police had repeatedly told them they should go Home. They would t Budge from their spot As the last two in line. I m just determined to see if i can get in and i can Only Hope Irene Mahaffey said. Everyone in line got to View the casket Library spokesman said. 1 would have been Here even if the wait had been All night said Dennis Elmore,41, of san Jacinto emerging from the Library Early wednesday morning. I turned and saw the coffin and there he was. His soul is there. You can feel the  in the Library s lobby mourners were greeted by a photograph of a grinning Nixon giving a thumbs up sign. Wreaths from China Poland and Russia adorned the coffin which stood on a Pedestal under the gaze of a military Honor guard. Wednesday s ceremony was to be for the powerful with not Only every living , but also delegations from at least 55 countries expected. Clinton who As a student protested Nixon s Vietnam War policies was to deliver a Eulogy. Previewing Clinton s remarks at the funeral press Secretary Dee Dee Myers on wednesday said Clinton believes that Nixon s life ought to be judged in its totality and not by any particular event that he was involved in Public service for nearly 50 years and that he had Many accomplishments some setbacks during those years but that history will remember him for his life More  first in line for the Public viewing waybill Anderson 47, of Barstow who wanted to pay his respects and to see his 21-year-Ola son Albert a member of the Honor guard. For any Man to give his whole life for this country i would have to have Strong feeling for him Bill Anderson   Buddhist monks and an american in Dian chief joined those in line. Japanese German and Spanish languages could be heard in the  was to be buried next to his wife Pat who died last year. The burial site is a few Steps from the tiny clapboard farm House built by Nixon s father. Nixon was born there and lived in the House until he. The Library is on the land where Nix on s father tried and failed to coax Lemon. Trees to Bear fruit. He eventually move the family to Whittier and opened a serv ice station then a general store. Nixon went into a self imposed five year exile in California after he resigned in 1974 rat ice than risk impeachment Over the watergate scandal. He did not want a Washington funeral and his family declined to have his body lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Members of Congress marked his death in the Rotunda anyway tuesday placing a Large Wreath at its Center where the coffin would have been. Russel Lutkins above of North Plainfield n.j., wipes away tears As he views the casket of former president Nixon Early wednesday. Is Kan goof 00 col Michael Moritz left spec. Sean Mcclure Center and sgt Brian Webb members of the 501st my co in bad Kreuz Nach Germany retire the colors wednesday in final tribute to former president Nixon