Death of Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.

Proclamation 6644 of January 6, 1994

Death of Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

As a mark of respect for the memory of the Honorable
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, I hereby order, by the authority
vested in me as President of the United States of
America by section 175 of title 36 of the United States
Code, that the flag of the United States shall be flown
at half-staff 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 until his interment. I also
direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for
the same length of time 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
sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and
eighteenth.

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