[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 47 (Monday, November 23, 1998)]
[Page 2326]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7147--National Farm-City Week, 1998

November 17, 1998

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Thanks in large part to our Nation's farmers, the quality of life 
the American people enjoy today is the envy of the world. Farmers and 
ranchers provide us with a safe, abundant, and affordable supply of food 
and fiber. American agriculture remains one of our country's most 
important and productive industries, generating more than 22 million 
jobs and contributing a trillion dollars to the American economy each 
year. Today's farmers and ranchers also serve as guardians of our 
precious environment. Using modern technology and environmentally 
responsible methods, they have improved our Nation's water supply, 
worked to reduce soil erosion, and restored thousands of acres of 
wetlands.
    This remarkable record of achievement would not be possible, 
however, without the essential farm-city partnerships that contribute so 
much to the productivity of America's farms and ranches. From seed and 
fertilizer merchants to agricultural processors, from research 
scientists in the laboratory to extension agents in the field, from 
shippers and manufacturers to inspectors and grocers, urban and rural 
Americans work together to share the bounty of this land with their 
fellow citizens and with people around the world.
    For more than 40 years, Americans have set aside this special week 
to recognize and reflect upon the importance of these partnerships in 
sustaining our Nation's strength and prosperity. As we celebrate 
Thanksgiving with family and friends, let us remember to count among our 
many blessings America's agricultural abundance and the collaboration 
between rural and urban communities that has contributed so much to the 
quality of our lives.
    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 
20 through November 26, 1998, as National Farm-City Week. I call upon 
all Americans, in rural and urban communities alike, to join in 
recognizing the accomplishments of our farmers and all the hardworking 
individuals who cooperate to produce a wealth of affordable, quality 
agricultural goods that strengthen and enrich our country.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day 
of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and twenty-third.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:45 a.m., November 18, 
1998]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on 
November 19.