[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 20 (Monday, May 20, 1996)]
[Pages 879-880]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6898--Death of Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda

May 17, 1996

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda, 
Chief of Naval Operations, 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

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United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset on the 
day of interment. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-
staff for the same period 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 seventeenth day 
of May, 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., May 21, 1996]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on May 
22.