[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 30 (Monday, July 28, 1997)]
[Pages 1118-1119]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7013--Death of William J. Brennan, Jr.

July 24, 1997

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of William J. Brennan, Jr., 
former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 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 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 twenty-fourth 
day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-seven, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and twenty-second.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 28, 
1997]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
July 29.

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