Representative Les AuCoin meets Mikhail Gorbachev · Les AuCoin Collection

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.
Identifier: PUA_MS147_37
Date: 1986
Date Created: 1986
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Subject: Legislators--United States; United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
Spatial Coverage: Moscow, Russia
Type: Still Image