[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 1 (Monday, January 10, 1994)]
[Pages 7-8]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6644--Death of Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.

January 6, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of the Honorable Thomas P. 
O'Neill, Jr., former Speaker of the House of Representatives, 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, 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 sixth day of 
January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

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[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:32 a.m., January 6, 
1994]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on January 
7.