Presidential Proclamation Announcing the Death of George H.W. Bush Flags are to be flown at half-staff for a period of 30 days from the day of his death It is my sorrowful duty to announce officially the death of George Herbert Walker Bush, the forty-first President of the United States, on November 30, 2018. President Bush led a great American life, one that combined and personified two of our Nation’s greatest virtues: an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to public se