Providing for the Closing of Government Departments and agencies on April 27, 1994
Signed April 23, 1994·William J. Clinton·59 FR 21915
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Plain-language summary
Directs that all executive departments, independent establishments, and other federal government agencies, including their field offices, close on April 27, 1994, as a mark of respect for Richard Nixon, the 37th President. That day is to be treated as a holiday under federal law for purposes of employee compensation and leave. The order exempts offices or installations within the Department of State, the Department of Defense, or other agencies where the head of that department or agency determines they should remain open for reasons of national security, defense, or other public reasons.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Note: In memoriam of President Nixon
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The order, in full
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive departments, independent
establishments, and other governmental agencies,
including their field services, shall be closed on
April 27, 1994, as a mark of respect for Richard
Milhous Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the
United States. That day shall be considered as falling
within the scope of 5 U.S.C. 6103(b), and of all
statutes so far as they relate to the compensation and
leave of employees of the United States.
Sec. 2. The first sentence of section 1 of this order
shall not apply to those offices and installations, or
parts thereof, in the Department of State, the
Department of Defense, or other departments,
independent establishments, and governmental agencies
that the heads thereof determine should remain open for
reasons of national security or defense or other public
reasons.
(Presidential Sig.)>
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 23, 1994.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed April 23, 1994. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.