[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 16 (Monday, April 22, 2002)]
[Page 646]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7542--Death of Byron R. White

 April 17, 2002

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    As a mark of respect for the memory of Byron R. White, 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 seventeenth day 
of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
sixth.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:09 a.m., April 19, 
2002]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April 
22.