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On the recordApril 23, 2013
I hereby order, by the authority vested in me 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 all public buildings and grounds and at all military facilities and naval stations of the Federal Government in the State of Texas on April 25, 2013.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Proclamation 8963—Honoring the Victims of the Explosion in West

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