FLAGS AT HALF STAFF IN HONOR OF FORMER
PRESIDENT FORD

BOISE – Governor Jim Risch has ordered flags at the State Capitol Building and other state buildings and facilities to be flown at half-staff starting today in honor of former President Gerald Ford. The flags will remain at half-staff until sunset on January 25, 2007, a period of 30 days.

“Gerald Ford was a President who truly had the best interests of the American people at heart. I salute his long and distinguished service to our country,” said Risch.

President Ford was the thirty-eighth U.S. President and was 93 years old at the time of his death.

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