[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 23, 1999)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 66083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30684]


 
 
                         Presidential Documents 
 
 

  Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 225 / Tuesday, November 23, 1999 / 
Presidential Documents  

[[Page 66083]]


                Proclamation 7252 of November 18, 1999

                
National Farm-City Week, 1999

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                As we gather with family and friends to celebrate 
                Thanksgiving and to express our gratitude for the many 
                blessings bestowed on ourselves and our Nation, we must 
                also give thanks for the special relationship between 
                America's farms and cities--a relationship that has 
                strengthened our economy and helped to sustain people 
                across America and around the world.

                Throughout our Nation's history, America's farmers and 
                ranchers have provided us with an abundant, affordable 
                supply of food and fiber. As we prepare to enter the 
                21st century, we recognize that rural America will 
                continue to be a cornerstone of our national 
                prosperity. Generating more than 22 million jobs and 
                contributing a trillion dollars each year to our 
                economy, American agriculture is one of our most 
                important and productive industries.

                However, farmers and ranchers do not live or work in 
                isolation; the labor of many people, both rural and 
                urban Americans, helps provide the agricultural 
                products so vital to our health, our prosperity, and 
                our quality of life. What connects farms and ranches 
                with urban stores and consumers is a network of 
                farmers, ranchers, agribusiness industries, scientists, 
                inspectors, shippers, retail distributors, and others 
                who work together to grow, process, and share the 
                bounty of our great land.

                During National Farm-City Week, let us pause to give 
                thanks for that bounty. Let us acknowledge the efforts 
                of the many hardworking men and women across our 
                country who dedicate their lives to producing the 
                world's safest, most abundant supply of food and fiber. 
                And let us be thankful for the strength and 
                productivity of the working relationship between 
                America's rural and urban communities.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim November 19 through November 
                25, 1999, as National Farm-City Week. I call upon all 
                Americans, in rural and urban communities alike, to 
                recognize the achievements of all those who work 
                together to promote America's agricultural abundance.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twenty-fourth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 99-30684
Filed 11-22-99; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3195-01-P