U.S. House floor "SALT II" speech · Les AuCoin Collection

Identifier: PUA_MS147_358
Title: U.S. House floor "SALT II" speech
Description: A speech given on the U.S. House floor by Congressman Les AuCoin. In his speech, Congressman AuCoin advocated for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). SALT II was a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter and the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev. The agreement, which never went into effect, addressed issues of the SALT I treaty of 1972 and attempted to slow down the nuclear arms race. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).
Creator: AuCoin, Les
Date: Year(s): 1979
Date: Display: July 13, 1979
Subject: United States. Congress. House.; Legislators--United States; Bills, Legislative; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union; Nuclear arms control
Place: United States; Soviet Union
Source: Les AuCoin Papers, Pacific University Archives
Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Type: Text