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  I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

at the City of Washington this 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-seventh. HERBERT HOOVER By the President:
 * Secretary of State.
 * Secretary of State.

[No. 2023]



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

It becomes my sad duty to announce officially the death of Calvin Cooldige, which occurred at his home in the City of Northampton, Massachusetts, on the fifth day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, at twelve twenty-five o'clock in the afternoon.

Mr. Coolidge had devoted his entire life to the public service, and his steady progress from Councilman to Mayor of Northampton and thence upward. as Member of the State Senate of Massachusetts, Lieutenant-Governor and Governor of Massachusetts, to Vice- President and President of the United States, stands as a conspicuous memorial to his private and public virtues, his outstanding ability, and his devotion to the public welfare.

His name had become in his own lifetime a synonym for sagacity and wisdom; and his temperateness in speech and his orderly deliberation in action bespoke the profound sense of responsibility which guided his conduct of the public business.

From the American people he evoked an extraordinary warmth of affectionate response to his salient and characteristic personality. He earned and enjoyed their confidence in the highest degree. To millions of our people his death will come as a personal sorrow as well as a public loss.

As an expression of public sorrow, it is ordered that the flags of The White House and of 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 Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may be rendered on the day of the funeral.

I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

at the City of Washington this fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-seventh.

HERBERT HOOVER By the President:
 * Secretary of State.
 * Secretary of State.

[No. 2024] 