Announcing the Death of Gerald R. Ford, 421-422 [06-9991]

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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 2007)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 421-422]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-9991]



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Part IV





The President





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Proclamation 8093--Announcing the Death of Gerald R. Ford



Proclamation 8094--National Day of Mourning for Gerald R. Ford



Executive Order 13421--Providing for the Closing of Government 
Departments and Agencies on January 2, 2007


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 2 / Thursday, January 4, 2007 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 8093 of December 27, 2006

                
Announcing the Death of Gerald R. Ford

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES:

                It is my sad duty to announce officially the death of 
                Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth President of the 
                United States, on December 26, 2006.

                President Ford was a great man who devoted the best 
                years of his life to serving the United States of 
                America. He was also a true gentleman who reflected the 
                best in America's character. Before the world knew his 
                name, he served with distinction in the United States 
                Navy and the United States House of Representatives. As 
                a congressman from Michigan, and then as Vice 
                President, he commanded the respect and earned the 
                goodwill of all who had the privilege of knowing him. 
                On August 9, 1974, he stepped into the presidency 
                without having ever sought the office.

                During his time in office, the American people came to 
                know President Ford as a man of complete integrity, who 
                led our country with common sense and kind instincts. 
                Americans will always admire Gerald Ford's unflinching 
                performance of duty, the honorable conduct of his 
                Administration, and the great rectitude of the man 
                himself. We mourn the loss of such a leader, and our 
                thirty-eighth President will always have a special 
                place in our Nation's memory.

                President Ford lived 93 years, and his life was a 
                blessing to America. Now this fine man will be taken to 
                his rest by a family that will love him always and by a 
                Nation that will be grateful to him forever.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the 
                United States of America, by the authority vested in me 
                by the Constitution and laws of the United States, in 
                honor and tribute to the memory of Gerald R. Ford, and 
                as an expression of public sorrow, do hereby direct 
                that the flag of the United States be displayed at 
                half-staff at the White House and on all buildings, 
                grounds, and Naval vessels of the United States for a 
                period of 30 days from the day of his death. I also 
                direct that for the same length of time, the 
                representatives of the United States in foreign 
                countries shall make similar arrangements for the 
                display of the flag at half-staff over their Embassies, 
                Legations, and other facilities abroad, including all 
                military facilities and stations.

                I hereby order that suitable honors be rendered by 
                units of the Armed Forces under orders of the Secretary 
                of Defense.

                In a further expression of our national grief, I will 
                appoint in a subsequent proclamation a National Day of 
                Mourning throughout the United States when the American 
                people may assemble in their respective places of 
                worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President 
                Ford.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord 
                two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and thirty-first. 
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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