[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 35 (Monday, August 31, 1998)]
[Page 1653]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7117--Death of Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

August 25, 1998

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of Lewis F. Powell, Jr., retired 
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, I hereby 
order, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution 
and laws of the United States of America, that the flag of the United 
States shall be flown at half-staff on the day of his interment. On such 
day the flag shall be flown at half-staff until sunset 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; 
and 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-fifth 
day of August, 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-third.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:12 a.m., August 26, 
1998]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on August 
27.