Representative Les AuCoin on a trade delegation to China · Les AuCoin Collection

Title: Representative Les AuCoin on a trade delegation to China
Description: Representative Les AuCoin speaks with 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.
Identifier: PUA_MS147_36
Date: 1979
Date Created: 1979
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Subject: Legislators--United States; International economic relations; Foreign trade regulation--China
Spatial Coverage: Beijing, China
Type: Still Image