[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 39 (Monday, October 4, 1993)]
[Page 1937]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6598--Death of General James H. Doolittle

 September 30, 1993

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of General James H. Doolittle, 
one of our Nation's foremost military heroes, 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, 
October 1, 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 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 thirtieth day 
of September, 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, 11:11 a.m., September 
30, 1993]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on October 
1.