As a further mark of respect to the memory of Gerald R.
Ford, the thirty-eighth President of the United States, NOW, THEREFORE,
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, in honor and tribute to the memory of Gerald R. Ford, and as an
expression of public sorrow, do appoint Tuesday, January 2, 2007, as a
National Day of Mourning throughout the United States. I call on the
American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of
worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President Ford. I invite
the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this solemn
observance.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty eighth
day of December in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and
thirty-first.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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