[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 52 (Monday, January 1, 2007)]
[Pages 2210-2211]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 8094--National Day of Mourning for Gerald R. Ford

 December 28, 2006

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    As a further mark of respect to the memory of Gerald R. Ford, the 
thirty-eighth President of the United States,
     Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States 
of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws 
of the United States, in honor and tribute to the memory of Gerald R. 
Ford, and as an expression of public sorrow, do appoint Tuesday, January 
2, 2007, as a National Day of Mourning throughout the United States. I 
call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective 
places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President Ford. 
I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this 
solemn observance.
     In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-eighth 
day of December in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
first.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 3, 
2007]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
January 4, 2007.

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