Memoranda and photo regarding a Congressional delegation visiting Chernobyl

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This scrapbook page includes a photo of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and a memorandum about a congressional visit to the site. The memorandum, from Mark Nelson to the Foreign Desk, describes how Representatives Les AuCoin (OR), Norm Dicks (WA), and Richard Cheney (WY) were invited to visit the site of the nuclear disaster. 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.