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Lyndon Johnson: “I direct that until interment the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on all buildings, grounds and…”

On the recordApril 4, 1968
I direct that until interment the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on all buildings, grounds and naval vessels of the Federal Government.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3839—Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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