[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 9 (Monday, March 8, 1999)]
[Pages 364-365]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7172--Death of Harry A. Blackmun

March 4, 1999

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of Harry A. Blackmun, 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 the 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 U.S. 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 fourth day of 
March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, 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, 8:45 a.m., March 8, 
1999]

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Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on March 
9.