Death of Byron R. White

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Part III

The President

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Proclamation 7542--Death of Byron R. White

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 7542 of 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.

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