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Representative Les AuCoin presents a peace quilt from Beaverton, Oregon to the Soviet Union

Representative Les AuCoin presents a peace quilt sewn in Beaverton, Oregon to Minister Eduard Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union. PUA_MS147_122 offers a description of the quilt: "This quilt was stitched by students of Vose Elementary School in Beaverton. As part of the Campfire Organization's 'A Gift of Peace' project nationally, Campfire members at Vose conceptualized the making of two quilts - one to be presented to President Reagan and the other to be presented to General Secretary Gorbachev". See PUA_MS147_122 for a full description. 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.

1987

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union

Legislators--United States

Friendship quilts

Soviet Union

Russia

PUA_MS147_126

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