[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 13 (Monday, April 1, 1996)]
[Page 582]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6874--Death of Edmund Sixtus Muskie

March 27, 1996

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of Edmund Sixtus Muskie, one of 
our Nation's foremost public servants, 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 on 
Saturday, March 30, 1996. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at 
half-staff on that 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-seventh 
day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-six, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and twentieth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., March 29, 
1996]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on March 28, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
April 1.