A speech by U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin given before the Rotary Club of Beaverton on January 15, 1986. In his speech, Congressman AuCoin expressed his hopes for a nuclear arms control treaty admist the Cold War. He also discussed the Star Wars program (the Strategic Defense Initiative of 1984), Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the federal budget, and the Gramm-Rudman Acts. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).
An address by U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin titled "A Tale of Two Cities," given at the Beaverton First Citizen Award Dinner on May 16, 1986. In his address, Congressman AuCoin recalled when he first arrived in Washington County to attend Pacific University and his experiences with the city of Beaverton, Oregon. He compared the city of Beaverton as it was when he first arrived in the early 1960s to the Beaverton of the 1980s. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).
This document describes two peace quilts created in Oregon as gifts for the Soviet Union. The Vose Quilt, created by students of Vose Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon, was one of two matching quilts created for U.S. President Regan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The Oregon Peace Quilt, created by the Forest Grove Stitchery Group, was created to "demonstrate to the women of the Soviet Union, especially, that the women of the U.S.A. stood for friendship and peace". See also PUA_MS147_116, PUA_MS147_125, PUA_MS147_126 for images of the quilts. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
Hand-drawn flyer advertising "An Evening for Les AuCoin Spaghetti Dinner, featuring homemade pies, cakes, and bread, Continuous Entertainment" at the Beaverton Methodist Church on Sunday October 11th, 1970. Representative Les AuCoin often held spaghetti dinners during his campaigns for office, and this one was for his first campaign for state representative in Oregon. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives and can be found in Box 11, Folder 26.
