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‘12 Things That Must Happen When a President Dies’

Brooke Nelson Alexander, writing for Reader’s Digest, in 2023:

Per federal law, all government buildings, public schools, offices and military bases must lower their flags to half-staff for 30 days when a U.S. president or former president dies.

It is not, in fact, something one gets “giddy” about. It’s the law.

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