Fly the United States Flag at Half-Staff Through Sunset on Thursday, December 9, 2021
in Honor of Robert Joseph Dole

 

[December 06, 2021] 

A Proclamation on the Death of Robert Joseph Dole

December 5, 2021

DEATH OF ROBERT JOSEPH DOLE

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

As a mark of respect for Robert Joseph Dole, a statesman like few in our history and a war hero among the greatest of the Greatest
Generation, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States 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 at the White House and 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 sunset on December 9, 2021.

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 fifth day of
December, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
forty-sixth.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR