Finding flags still at half-staff more than a week after the
death of former President Reagan, people have asked whether this is
correct. It is.
Finding flags still at half-staff more than a week after the death of former President Reagan, people have asked whether this is correct. It is.
Flags are flown at half-staff a full 30 days after a president’s death.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a presidential proclamation on March 1, 1954, setting the rules for flag etiquette following the death of a president, vice-president and other high government officials.
• For a president or former president, the flag will be flown at half-staff on all federal government buildings and military installations and vessels for 30 days from the date of death.
• For a vice-president, the chief justice or a retired chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, or the speaker of the House of Representatives for 10 days from the day of death.
• For Supreme Court associate justices, a member of the cabinet, a former vice-president, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the majority or minority leader of the Senate, the majority or minority leader of the House of Representatives, from the day of death until burial.
• For a U.S. senator, representative, territorial delegate or resident commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, flags are flown at half-staff on federal installations and in the appropriate state or territory on the day and the day after the death, until interment.
• The president or heads of appropriate governmental departments may direct flags be lowered to half-staff in the event of the death of other officials and former officials.
Details: www.usflag.org
