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- THE WHITE HOUSE
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- Office of the Press Secretary
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- For Immediate Release January 25, 1993
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- DEATH OF THURGOOD MARSHALL
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- BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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- A PROCLAMATION
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- Thurgood Marshall, an African-American born and reared
- in segregated America, was a fundamental force of change in this
- Nation. Perhaps no other American lawyer has had more impact on
- the current meaning and content of the U.S. Constitution. As the
- leading attorney for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education
- Fund, Justice Marshall's twenty-nine victories before the
- U.S. Supreme Court breathed life into the text of the Fourteenth
- Amendment and guaranteed all Americans equality and liberty in
- their individual choices concerning voting, housing, education,
- and travel. As an appeals court judge, the Solicitor General of
- the United States and, finally, Supreme Court Justice, he worked
- tirelessly to expand and protect his vision of justice for
- America. As our Nation begins to chart its course for the next
- century, it is fitting that we pause to honor and remember the
- courageous, purposeful life of Thurgood Marshall.
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- As a mark of respect for the memory of Thurgood
- Marshall, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
- the United States, I hereby order by the authority vested in me
- as President of the United States of America by section 175 of
- title 36 of the United States Code, that the flag of the United
- States shall be flown at half-staff 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 his interment. 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.
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- IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
- this twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord
- nineteen hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of
- the United States of American the two hundred and seventeenth.
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- WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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