[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 30 (Monday, August 2, 1993)]
[Pages 1503-1504]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6583--Death of Matthew B. Ridgway

 July 29, 1993

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of General Matthew B. Ridgway, 
one of our Nation's most venerated military leaders, 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 on Friday, 
July 30, 1993, 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. I also direct that the flag shall be flown 
at half-staff on the same

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day at all United States embassies, legations, consular 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-ninth 
day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:23 a.m., July 30, 
1993]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
August 2.