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Woodrow Wilson: I do hereby direct that the flags of the White House and the several Departmental Buildings be displayed at half staff…

On the recordJanuary 6, 1919
I do hereby direct that the flags of the White House and the several Departmental Buildings be displayed at half staff for a period of thirty days, and that suitable military and naval honors under orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy may be rendered on the day of the funeral.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Proclamation 1506-B—Announcing the Death of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt

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