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Proclamation 3948

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Proclamation 3948
Amending Proclamation No. 3044 With Respect to Display of the Flag of the United States of America at Half-staff Upon the Death of Certain Officials and Former Officials

by Richard Nixon

Delivered on December 12, 1969.

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Amending Proclamation No. 3044 With Respect to Display of the Flag of the United States of America at Half-staff Upon the Death of Certain Officials and Former Officials
Richard Nixon

AMENDING PROCLAMATION NO. 3044 WITH RESPECT TO DISPLAY OF THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT HALF-STAFF UPON THE DEATH OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS AND FORMER OFFICIALS

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION


I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, do hereby proclaim that Proclamation No. 3044 of March 1, 1954, prescribing rules with respect to the display of the flag of the United States of America at half-staff upon the death of certain officials, is amended by substituting for subsection (c) of section 1 thereof the following:

"(c) An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Cabinet, a former Vice President, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Majority Leader of Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, or the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives: from the day of death until interment."

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-fourth.

RICHARD NIXON


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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