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    Flags ordered to half-staff to honor passing of former Vice President Walter Mondale

    (Cheyenne, WY) –  Governor Mark Gordon, pursuant to a directive from the White House reflecting the U.S. Flag Code, has ordered both the U.S. and State of Wyoming flags be flown at half-staff statewide, immediately, in honor and remembrance of  former Vice President Walter Mondale. The flags will remain at half-staff until sunset.

    The Presidential Proclamation follows:

    DEATH OF WALTER MONDALE
    – – – – – – –
    BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    A PROCLAMATION

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    Today, our Nation mourns the loss of one of our Nation’s most dedicated patriots
    and public servants. Walter Frederick “Fritz” Mondale served the people of
    Minnesota as their Attorney General from 1960-1964, as a United States Senator
    from 1964-1976, as Vice President of the United States from 1977-1981, and as the
    United States Ambassador to Japan from 1993-1996.
    As Minnesota’s Attorney General, he drew national attention in a landmark
    case before the U.S. Supreme Court that established that indigent criminal
    defendants have the right to legal counsel.
    As a Senator, he was instrumental in the passage of The Fair Housing Act to
    combat racial discrimination in housing, Title IX to provide more opportunities
    for women, and numerous laws to protect our environment.
    Walter Mondale defined the modern vice presidency, elevating the position into a
    true partnership with the President. As Vice President, he helped lay the
    groundwork for the 1978 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, the Panama Canal
    Treaty, and nuclear arms negotiations with the Soviet Union.
    As the 1984 Democratic nominee for President, he made history when he became the
    first Presidential nominee of either party to select a woman as his running mate.
    In continuing his service as the United States Ambassador to Japan, he became the
    voice and face of America to that important ally.
    For nearly 60 years he had a remarkable partnership with his wife Joan, a
    devoted advocate for the arts, who passed away in 2014. We mourned when he lost
    his daughter Eleanor in 2011 and today our Nation’s sympathies lie with his sons
    Ted and William and his six grandchildren.
    On a wall at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, there is a quote from
    Walter Mondale. It reads, “We told the truth. We obeyed the law. We kept the
    peace.” Walter Mondale did all that and more.
    As a mark of respect for Walter Mondale and his life of service to our
    Nation, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
    laws of the United States of America, including section 7 of title 4, United
    States Code, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at
    the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts
    and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the
    District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and
    possessions until sunset, on the day of interment. I also direct that the flag
    shall be flown at half-staff for the same period at all United States embassies,
    legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military
    facilities and naval vessels and stations.
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of April,
    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-fifth.

    JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

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