Representative Les AuCoin meets Mikhail Gorbachev

Title

Representative Les AuCoin meets Mikhail Gorbachev

Description

Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue meet Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union. In typed notes about the image, AuCoin writes: "Sue and I were members of Speaker Jim Wright's 1986 mission to Moscow. At the Kremlin, I talked briefly with Mikhail Gorbachev about a bill I helped pass that banned flight tests on anti-satellite weapons. It was the first form of arms control ever conceived in and passed by Congress. Sue stands behind me." This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. The original photo remains with the AuCoin family.

Date Created

1986

Subject

Legislators--United States
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union

Place

Moscow, Russia

Identifier

PUA_MS147_37

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Type

Still Image