[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 234 (Thursday, December 7, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 85091-85092]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27043]


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 The President

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                Proclamation 10682 of December 4, 2023

                
Death of Sandra Day O'Connor

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was an American icon, the 
                first woman on our Nation's highest court. She spent 
                her career committed to the stable center, pragmatic 
                and in search of common ground. Defined by her no-
                nonsense Arizona ranch roots, Justice O'Connor overcame 
                discrimination early on, at a time when law firms too 
                often told women to seek work as secretaries, not 
                attorneys. She gave her life to public service, even 
                holding elected office, and never forgot those ties to 
                the people whom the law is meant to serve. She sought 
                to avoid ideology, and was devoted to the rule of law 
                and to the bedrock American principle of an independent 
                judiciary. Justice O'Connor never quit striving to make 
                this Nation stronger, calling on us all to engage with 
                our country and with one another, and her institute's 
                work to promote civics education and civil discourse 
                has touched millions. She knew that for democracy to 
                work, we have to listen to each other, and remember how 
                much more we all have in common as Americans than what 
                keeps us apart.

                As a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding 
                service of Sandra Day O'Connor, retired Associate 
                Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, I 
                hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, that on the day of her interment, the flag of 
                the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the 
                White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, 
                at all military posts and naval stations, and on all 
                naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District 
                of Columbia and throughout the United States and its 
                Territories and possessions until sunset on such day. I 
                also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff 
                for the same period at all United States embassies, 
                legations, consular offices, and other facilities 
                abroad, including all military facilities and naval 
                vessels and stations.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                eighth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2023-27043
Filed 12-6-23; 8:45 am]
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