[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 17 (Monday, May 2, 1994)]
[Page 898]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12910--Providing for the Closing of Government 
Departments and Agencies on April 27, 1994

April 23, 1994

    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.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
April 23, 1994.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:21 a.m., April 25, 
1994]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
April 26.