National Farm-City Week, 1999

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.