[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 46 (Monday, November 20, 1995)]
[Pages 2027-2028]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6851--National Farm-City Week, 1995

November 15, 1995

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    When America was a new country, farms were many and small. Farmers 
and their families used most of what they produced, and the rest was 
usually sold locally. Even in 1862, when Abraham Lincoln created the 
Department of Agriculture, 60 percent of our labor force gained their 
livelihood on the farm.
    Today, while less than 2 percent of American workers are actually 
employed on farms, thanks to new approaches and advanced technologies, 
our farmers feed not only the people of the United States, but also much 
of the world. Agriculture remains our Nation's number one industry, 
generating $1 trillion in economic activity every year--over 15 percent 
of our gross domestic product--and it is our largest employer, providing 
21 million jobs.
    This prosperity is due in large part to farm-city partnerships. From 
the sowing of crops to the purchasing of food and fiber in urban 
supermarkets, a network of farmers, agribusiness industries, carriers 
and shippers, scientists, retail distributors, and consumers has 
cooperated to ensure that our food supply is safe, affordable, and 
nutritious. As we gather with family and friends during this special 
week, let us give thanks for the blessings of our lives, for America's 
agricultural richness, and for the collaboration among rural and urban 
communities that makes so much of this bounty possible.
    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 
17 through November 23, 1995, as National Farm-City Week. I call upon 
citizens in urban, suburban, and rural areas throughout the Nation to 
acknowledge the achievements of those who work together to promote 
America's agricultural abundance.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fifteenth day 
of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and twentieth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:47 a.m., November 20, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on 
November 21.

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