For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 17, 2002
Death of Byron R. White
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
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