IMPORTANT UPDATE: Robert Joseph Dole, a former U.S. senator, died on Sunday, December 5, 2021. The Flag Code dictates that the United States flag should immediately be flown at half-staff, "on the day of death and the following day." 4 USC Section 7(m). In an interesting divergence, President Biden has ordered that “the flag of the United States be flown at half-staff immediately throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset on December 9, 2021.” In view of the intervening commemoration of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, consider this proclamation as superseding, or perhaps more aptly, underscoring that former proclamation. The president refers to Sen. Dole as "a statesman like few in our history and a war hero among the greatest of the Greatest Generation,”even as we pay tribute thereto.
December 9, 2021
By the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to extend the display of the flag at half-staff as a mark of respect for Robert Joseph Dole, it is hereby ordered that Proclamation 10320 of December 5, 2021, is amended by deleting in the first sentence the words “until sunset on December 9, 2021” and inserting in their place the words “through Saturday, December 11.”
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth 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.
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