[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 4 (Monday, February 1, 1993)]
[Pages 93-94]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6526--Death of Thurgood Marshall

 January 24, 1993

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Thurgood Marshall, an African-American born and reared in segregated 
America, was a fundamental force of change in this Nation. Perhaps no 
other American lawyer has had more impact on the current meaning and 
content of the U.S. Constitution. As the leading attorney for the 
N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund, Justice Marshall's twenty-
nine victories before the U.S. Supreme Court breathed life into the text 
of the Fourteenth Amendment and guaranteed all Americans equality and 
liberty in their individual choices concerning voting, housing, 
education, and travel. As an appeals court judge, the Solicitor General 
of the United States and, finally, Supreme Court Justice, he worked 
tirelessly to expand and protect his vision of justice for America. As 
our Nation begins to chart its course for the next century, it is 
fitting that we pause to honor and remember the courageous, purposeful 
life of Thurgood Marshall.
    As a mark of respect for the memory of Thurgood Marshall, former 
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, I hereby 
order by the authority vested in me as President of the United States of 
America by section 175 of title 36 of the United States Code, that the 
flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff 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 his interment. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-
staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, 
legations, con- 

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sular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military 
facilities and naval vessels and stations.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fourth 
day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-
three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two 
hundred seventeenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 1:45 a.m., January 25, 
1993]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on January 25, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
January 27.