PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- President Obama has ordered all U.S. flags around the world lowered in memory of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii until sunset of the day he is laid to rest.
Governor Chafee, who said his father, the late Sen. John Chafee, and Inouye were friends in the Senate, also ordered state flags lowered for the same reason.
"Senator Inouye's time in Congress spanned -- remarkably -- the entire period of Hawaiian statehood," Chafee said of Inouye, who died Monday as the nation's most senior senator. He was elected to the U.S. House in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state.
Chafee said he, too, worked with Inouye. "There was a genuine warmth and sincerity to him that I will truly miss," Chafee said Tuesday.
CORRECTION: The original version of this item gave the wrong date for Inouye's death.