[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 47 (Monday, November 27, 2000)]
[Page 2899]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7379--National Farm-City Week, 2000

November 16, 2000

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Since our earliest days as a Nation, farmers have tilled the rich 
soil of this great land, feeding their families, our country, and people 
around the world. While America has changed from an agricultural to an 
industrial society, the American farm has remained a vital thread in the 
fabric of our national life. Farmers and ranchers exemplify the values 
on which our country was founded`hard work, faith, family, and devotion 
to community and to the land--and they have made American agriculture a 
leading global industry and a source of pride for our Nation.
    By providing their fellow Americans with an abundant supply of safe, 
high-quality food and fiber, our country's farmers and ranchers help 
sustain a quality of life that is unmatched around the world. In this 
new century, their role is becoming even more important as they strive 
to meet the challenge of feeding the world's people while preserving our 
fertile land, clean water, and other precious natural resources.
    Farmers and ranchers, however, do not accomplish these crucial tasks 
alone. Farm workers, shippers, inspectors, processors, agribusiness 
companies, marketers, grocers, and many others play vital roles in the 
extraordinary productivity of America's agricultural industry. These 
farm-city partnerships strengthen our free enterprise system and remind 
us that the talents, energy, and hard work of millions of Americans have 
contributed to the unprecedented prosperity we enjoy today.
    This week, as we gather with our families in thanks for the bounty 
bestowed upon us, let us remember with gratitude the hardworking men and 
women in rural and urban communities who devote their lives to 
producing, processing, and delivering the world's safest, most abundant 
supply of food and fiber.
    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, 2000, as National Farm-City Week. I call upon 
all Americans, in rural and urban communities alike, to join in 
recognizing the achievements of all those who work together to promote 
America's agricultural abundance.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day 
of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
fifth.
                                            William J. Clinton

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 21, 
2000]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on November 18, and it was published in the Federal Register 
on November 22.