[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 46 (Monday, November 22, 1999)]
[Pages 2400-2401]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7252--National 
Farm-City Week, 1999

November 18, 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

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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.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 22, 
1999]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
November 23.