Also in attendance were former Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and their wives.[288]
Richard Nixon was buried beside his wife Pat on the grounds of the Nixon Library. He was survived by his two daughters, Tricia and Julie, and four grandchildren.[286] In keeping with his wishes, his funeral was not a full state funeral, though his body did lie in repose in the Nixon Library lobby from April 26 to the morning of the funeral service.[289] Mourners waited in line for up to eight hours in chilly, wet weather to pay their respects.[290] At its peak, the line to pass by Nixon's casket was three miles long with an estimated 42,000 people waiting.[291]
John F. Stacks of Time magazine said of Nixon shortly after his death,

An outsize energy and determination drove him on to recover and rebuild after every self-created disaster that he faced. To reclaim a respected place in American public life after his resignation, he kept traveling and thinking and talking to the world's leaders ... and by the time Bill Clinton came to the White House [in 1993], Nixon had virtually cemented his role as an elder statesman. 