Biden expected to attend Bob Dole's funeral on Friday

Family, friends and colleagues from some sides of the aisle are expected to eulogize erstwhile legislator and statesmanlike campaigner Bob Dole Friday during a ceremonial work astatine the National Cathedral successful Washington, D.C.

According to ABC News and CNN, President Joe Biden is among those who volition talk astatine the service.

The work comes aft Dole's casket spent a time lying successful state successful the Capitol rotunda.

Dole died Sunday astatine the property of 98. He announced successful February that helium had been diagnosed with signifier 4 lung cancer.

Dole served arsenic an elected lawmaker from Kansas successful some the House and Senate for decades. He ran for president respective times passim his vocation and was elected arsenic the Republican nominee up of the 1996 election, which helium aboriginal mislaid to Bill Clinton.

Upon his death, lawmakers and Washington mainstays remembered Dole arsenic a virtuous antheral and idiosyncratic consenting to enactment crossed enactment lines.

Following the ceremonial work Friday, a motorcade volition question past the World War II Memorial connected the National Mall — a monument that Dole played an instrumental relation successful establishing.

After the ceremonial and little ceremonial astatine the World War II Memorial, Dole's casket volition beryllium flown backmost to Kansas for memorial ceremonies successful his hometown and astatine the authorities capitol. His assemblage volition yet return to Washington astatine a aboriginal date, arsenic Dole's remains volition beryllium interred astatine Arlington National Cemetery.