U.S. House floor "SALT II" speech

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A speech given on the U.S. House floor by Congressman Les AuCoin. In his speech, Congressman AuCoin advocated for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). SALT II was a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter and the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev. The agreement, which never went into effect, addressed issues of the SALT I treaty of 1972 and attempted to slow down the nuclear arms race. 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).