Representative Les AuCoin meets the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing
Title
Representative Les AuCoin meets the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing
Description
Representative Les AuCoin meets the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing. In typed notes about the image, AuCoin writes: "One month after the U.S. and P.R.C. established diplomatic relations, I was the first congressman to lead a trade delegation to China. Four Oregon businessmen, their spouses, and Sue and I arrived in February 1979. Here I'm conferring with a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing. In 1978, I had brought to the floor of the U.S. House the first bill to propose normal relations between the two countries." 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
1979
Subject
Legislators--United States
International economic relations
Foreign trade regulation--China
Place
Beijing, China
Identifier
PUA_MS147_141
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Type
Still Image