In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:08:17 -0500,
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 05:47:23 -0500, micky
wrote:

All federal offices are closed todayin the US.
Is that normal for the day of a president's funeral? Or is it a stunt
by Stumpie to a) to make it look like he respected Bush, b) to make it
look like he respects anyone, c) to try to set a precedent for when he
dies, may the day come soon?
I don't remember this being done for any of the other presidents who
have died, and there have been quite a few in the last 35 years, for
example.



Read, learn, evolve ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_day_of_mourning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_funeral

Good try but neither of these say a word about whether it's customary in
the US to close federal offices on the day of a president's funeral.

This page says it was for the funeral in 1994 and the 4 preceding it. I
haven't checked later ones but at least it's far from unheard of. So
Stumpie is off the hook on that part.

But the issue is not whether it's a state funeral. Harry Truman didn't
have one but it does say the offices were closed for him. That was my
question.