A clipping of an Oregonian newspaper article titled "AFL-CIO endorses AuCoin" by Jeff Mapes, published on October 26, 1991. As the Democratic candidate for the 1992 US Senate election in Oregon, US Congressman Les AuCoin received an endorsement from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrials Organizations (AFL-CIO).
A clipping of a Corvallis Gazette-Times newspaper article titled "AuCoin offers to debate," published on October 11, 1991. The article described US Congressman Les AuCoin's proposal to debate his challenger in the 1992 US Senate primary election in Oregon, Harry Lonsdale.
A clipping of a Bend Bulletin newspaper article titled "Packwood, AuCoin campaigns differ" by Scott Sonner, published on November 28, 1991. In the article, Sonner compares and contrasts the campaign styles of the two candidates of the 1992 US Senate Election in Oregon, incumbent Bob Packwood and challenger US Congressman Les AuCoin.
A clipping of a Springfield News article titled "Cheerio, Mr. Bush," published on December 7, 1941. Written during US Congressman Les AuCoin's time on the campaign trail for the 1992 US Senate race, the article features a photograph of Congressman AuCoin with four-year-old Justin Bush at a breakfast for Head Start students.
A booklet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1982 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The booklet features numerous photos of Congressman AuCoin and his family, as well as a record of his then recent accomplishments in Congress. Pat McCormick, Chief of Staff for Oregon House Majority Leader Les AuCoin (1973-1974), had noted in private communications that this booklet is "an example of a tabloid-size mini newspaper with large photos and major messages in headlines, one to a page. We 'borrowed' that format from Joe Biden who'd used in his first (1972) campaign for the Senate."
A booklet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1986 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The booklet features numerous photos of Congressman AuCoin and his family, as well as a record of his then recent accomplishments in Congress. Pat McCormick, Chief of Staff for Oregon House Majority Leader Les AuCoin (1973-1974), had noted in private communications that this booklet is "an example of a tabloid-size mini-newspaper with large photos and major messages in headlines, one to a page. We 'borrowed' that format from Joe Biden who'd used in his first (1972) campaign for the Senate."
A brochure from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1984 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The brochure features two photographs of Congressman AuCoin, as well as a description of his background and a list of his then recent achievements in Congress, with subtitles such as "Chopping the Federal Deficit," "Ending The Nuclear Arms Race," "Fighting for Women's Rights," "Protecting Our Timber, Fishing Industries," "Protecting Our Environment," "Inveseting In Our Young People," and "Preparing Our Economy For The Future."
A brochure from one of US Congressman Les AuCoin's re-election campaigns for Oregon's 1st District in the early 1980s (1982 or 1984, most likely). The brochure features photographs of Congressman AuCoin, as well as a description of his background and a list of his then recent achievements in Congress, with subtitles such as "Fighting high interest rates," "Pressing for peace," "Pulling the plug on Watt," "Kepping Social Security secure," "Creating housing jobs," "Saving our smaller mills," "Preparing our ports for coal," "Protecting our fishermen," and "Delivering roadbuilding jobs."
A pamphlet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1986 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The pamphlet features a candid portrait of Congressman AuCoin and a photograph of him and his family. Additionally, the pamphlet includes a description of his background and a list of his then recent accomplishments in Congress, including his work that stopped the federal government from dumping liquid nuclear waste into the soil in Hanford, Washington; passing legislation to help the US Coast Guard build a rescue helicopter station in Newport, Oregon; using his role in the Appropriations Committee to allocate $60 million in federal highway funds that created jobs in eastern Washington County; his help in passing a timber contract relief bill that prevented the bankruptcy of dozens of Oregon mills and the loss of hundreds of millworker jobs; using his role in the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to help establish Navy contracts for Portland shipyards; and convincing President Ronald Reagan and Congress to pass "the AuCoin amendment" which banned the testing of anti-satellite weapons.
A booklet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's first campaign for Oregon's 1st District in 1974. The booklet features photographs of AuCoin, descriptions of his background as an Oregon state representative, and a list of what he hoped to accomplish as a US congressman. Pat McCormick, Chief of Staff for AuCoin when he was Oregon House Majority Leader (1973-1974), had noted in private communications that this booklet is "an example of a tabloid-size mini newspaper with large photos and major messages in headlines, one to a page. We 'borrowed' that format from Joe Biden who'd used in his first (1972) campaign for the Senate."
A pamphlet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's first campaign for Oregon's 1st Congressional District in 1974. The pamphlet features numerous photographs of AuCoin, descriptions of his personal background and record as Oregon House Majority Leader, including his legislative efforts and accomplishments relating to the economy, the gasoline shortage, political reform, workers' benefits, health care, consumer protection, farming, and offshore fisheries.
A flyer from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1976 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The flyer features two photographs of Congressman AuCoin, a list of some of his then recent accomplishments, and some of his legislative goals for 1977-- including tax reform, establishing national health insurance, protecting the environment, restraining government spending, and protecting social security. The back of the flyer is titled "Les AuCoin makes a big difference in Clatsop County" and features a list of his accomplishments in the county, such as his work for the Knappa Water Association and passing legislation to finance public works projects.
A booklet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1980 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The flyer features numerous photographs of Congressman AuCoin and his family, descriptions of his personal and legislative background, and a list of his then recent accomplishments and goals, including keeping a balanced federal budget, using federal funds to stimulate new housing, advocating for safe renewable energy and condemning the building of nuclear power plants, advocating for Oregon farmers and small business owners in the immediate aftermath of the Mount St. Helens eruption.
A rack card from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1976 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The rack card features a photograph of Congressman AuCoin, and gives a description of his background and his accomplishments in Congress, describing his sponsoring of "laws to halt 'tight money' and high interest rates, to stimulate housing and create jobs....bills to put all government spending on a 'show-results-or-else' base; voted to halt foreign aid to countries which refuse to pay debts to America....[and] voted to close $3 billion in tax loopholes." The rack card also describes how AuCoin had "a 100% voting record on Common Cause and League of Women Voter issues."
A campaign pamphlet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1980 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The pamphlet features of photograph of Congressman AuCoin, and describes his then recent legislative record and accomplishments, including voting no on the 1979 Chrysler bailout, taxing Social Security benefits, hiking the gas tax 10 cents, the B-1 "boondoggle" and the MX Missile, "extravagant" federal spending, and withholding interest earnings on savings; voting yes on "a truly balanced budget," helping senior citizens pay for heating bills, establishing the Solar Bank, increasing the pay for American soldiers, reforestation, new housing, the maritime fleet, and raising "the amount of interest small savers can earn." The pamphlet also describes his work helping Oregon farmers and small business owners following the Mount St. Helens eruption, keeping Amtrak's Pioneer train running, keeping downtown hotels converted into apartments for low-income seniors open, helping Tillamook lengthen their jetty, helping the town of Aloha with issues with the Post Office, and helping to reunite three orphan sisters within a Hillsboro family.
A 1984 re-elect Les AuCoin campaign ad published in the Portland Jewish Review describing Congressman AuCoin's legislative record of supporting Israel, the Jewish people, and refuseniks. Refuseniks were Soviet Jews who faced discriminiation and were denied permission to emigrate away from the Soviet Union by authorities.
A 1982 AuCoin re-election campaign ad printed in The Advocate magazine, describing US Congressman Les AuCoin's history of supporting the gay community. The first page is a message from the Human Rights Campaign Fund to the office of Les AuCoin regarding the details of the ad.
A photocopy of a Washington Post newspaper article tited "AuCoin: Ready to 'Kick Ankles' for Abortion Rights" by Don Phillips, published on December 8, 1989. The article describes US Congressman Les AuCoin's famous "take names and kick ankles" speech, delivered on the House floor in defense of abortion rights before the vote of an antibortion amendment (which did not pass) which would have restricted Medicaid funding of abortion in the cases of rape and incest. The article quotes a part of AuCoin's speech: "Those of us who defend a woman's freedom of choice are drawing a line in the sand today, a line of decency, a line of fair play-- and a line of serious politics....If you vote for those amendments, you will be held accountable in ways you have never dreamed possible at ballot boxes all over this county. The pro-choice movement is mobilized. And from this day forward, it is going to take names and kick ankles."
A clipping of an Oregonian newspaper article describing US Congressman Les AuCoin's emergence as a national leader in Congress after 15 years in the US House of Representatives. The article, which was published on January 22, 1990, describes his legislative history, including his leading of pro-choice activists in the House, his role on the House Appropriations Committee, and his future legislative goals relating to forest research, timber appeals, timber communities, the Tri-Met expansion to downtown Hillsboro, export licensing, and capital gains tax legislation. The article features a photograph of AuCoin in Portland.
A letter from Oregon journalist and author Ron Abell to US Congressman Les AuCoin, dated January 5, 2010, reflecting on Oregon politics in the 1960s and 1970s. Attached are two chapters of Abell's unpublished memoir describing his experiences working for The Oregonian in 1964 and the Palisadian-Post (of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, California) in 1962.
A draft of a nuclear arms freeze resolution with notes likely written by US Congressman Les AuCoin. The draft is of H.J. Resolution 13 of the 98th Congress, officially titled "A joint resolution calling for a mutual and verifiable freeze on and reductions in nuclear weapons," a version of which passed in the House on May 4, 1983.
A two page document titled "Memo to self: Javelin Anti-Tank Missile" by former US Congressman Les AuCoin, describing the origins of and his connection to the Javelin infantry anti-tank weapon. The opening paragraph states: "I am the author of a legislative amendment requiring the U.S. Army to conduct a shoot-off between the three alternative technologies under consideration as replacements for the infamous Dragon infantry anti-tank weapon. My amendment specificed that operator survivability had to be an essential criterion for determining the winning technology. Out of this process came the Javelin infantry anti-tank weapon, which has had a transforming effect on the relationship between infantry and armor in the field of battle."
A statement titled "History of Javelin, the Infantry Anti-Tank Missile" by Robert Sherman, the former Associate Committee Staff Member to US Congressman Les AuCoin, for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. In his statement, written in August 2018, Sherman describes his experiences being on the staff of Congressman AuCoin in the 1980s and learning about the Army's anti-tank weapon plans.
US Congressman Les AuCoin's typewritten journal from November and December 1982. The journal describes his everyday life as a member of Congress, such as giving an address to the Oregon Sierra Club, having a discussion with an anti-missile and nuclear freeze activist group, meeting with a political advisory committee regarding the Balanced Budget Constituional Amendment, talks surrounding an Oregon wilderness bill, meeting with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, meeting with Senator Mark Hatfield, voting against "the vaunted 'Infrastructure/Jobs Bill,'" giving a house floor speech on the Defense Appropriations Bill on the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, receiving a conference report for the Transportation Appropriations Bil, and his work on the "automobile 'domestic content' bill" that affected the Port of Portland and the electronics industry.
