[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 22 (Monday, June 1, 1998)]
[Pages 999-1000]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7100--Death of Barry M. Goldwater

May 29, 1998

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of Barry M. Goldwater, former 
Senator from the State of Arizona, I hereby order, by the authority 
vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United 
States of America, 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 Wednesday, June 3, 1998. 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-ninth 
day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, 
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., June 2, 1998]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
June 3.

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