Santa Monica, Calif. ? Ronald Reagan will be honored with five days of memorial services, culminating Friday with a funeral at the National Cathedral and a sunset burial at his presidential library in California, Reagan’s family announced Sunday.

President Bush will speak at the funeral, the first for a former president in Washington since Lyndon Johnson’s in 1973, said Reagan spokeswoman Joanne Drake. Friday will be designated a national day of mourning. Federal offices will be closed.

Reagan, who died Saturday at age 93 after a long fight with Alzheimer’s disease, had been planning his memorial services since 1981, Drake said. The plans call for private services for Reagan’s family and close friends as well as large public events — including viewings of the closed casket in California and Washington and a procession to the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday evening.

The memorials are expected to be the largest since President John F. Kennedy’s in 1963.

Reagan will lie in state in the Capitol rotunda from Wednesday evening until Friday morning, and the public will be allowed inside. Only 29 men and nine presidents before Reagan — including Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson — have had that honor.

“President Reagan was a man of the people, and it was very important to him that people had the opportunity to pay their respects if they wanted,” Drake said.

Week of mourning

This morning, Reagan’s body will be taken from a Santa Monica funeral home to his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif. Following a private ceremony for his family, his body will lie in repose in the library’s lobby, and for 30 consecutive hours, it will be open to the public.

On Wednesday morning, the body will be flown, along with Reagan’s family, to Washington to begin a three-day state funeral that is rich in tradition from the days of Lincoln — and planned to the minute.

At 4 p.m. CDT the body will arrive at Andrews Air Force Base and be brought by motorcade to Washington. At 5 p.m., the procession will stop at the Ellipse at 1600 Constitution Ave. and — in what many remember as the most poignant moment of Kennedy’s funeral procession in November 1963 — the casket will be transferred onto a horse-drawn caisson to be brought to the Capitol.

A single drummer with a black-covered drum will walk with the body as it is drawn up Constitution Avenue, just as in Kennedy’s funeral.

After a state funeral ceremony in the rotunda, Reagan’s body will lie in state from 7:30 p.m. through Friday morning, when a motorcade will take the body to the National Cathedral for a national funeral service. John Danforth, a former Missouri senator who is an ordained Episcopal minister, will conduct the funeral and Bush will give the eulogy.

Following the service, Reagan will be flown back to California, where a private burial service will take place on the library grounds.

He will be buried, as he had wished, at sunset, in a grove of oak trees along a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean — a spot he selected before the library opened in 1991.

A curved wall adorned with shrubbery and ivy lines the memorial and is inscribed with a three-line quote from Reagan.

“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life,” the inscription reads.

Tributes and jelly beans

Drake, Reagan’s chief of staff, choked back tears a few times in addressing a throng of reporters at the Gates Kingsley Gates Mortuary in Santa Monica.

She said Reagan’s family had been extremely touched by the great show of sympathy from around the world. Among those who had contacted Nancy Reagan to express their condolences were Bush; former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford; former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; actor Charlton Heston; and the ailing Rev. Billy Graham, who called from his hospital bed.

Asked how Nancy Reagan was coping, Drake said: “While it is an extremely sad time for Mrs. Reagan, there is definitely a sense of relief that he is no longer suffering and that he has gone to a better place.”

Hundreds gathered at the mortuary Sunday in an enormous outpouring of sympathy. Mourners placed handwritten cards and more than 50 bouquets of flowers in neat rows in front of a field of American flags.

At Reagan’s boyhood home in Dixon, Ill., mourners left flowers, flags and packets of Jelly Belly jelly beans — his favorite — at the feet of a life-sized statue of Reagan in the front yard.