Death of Harry A. Blackmun

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 7172 of March 4, 1999

Death of Harry A. Blackmun

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.