"SALT II: Toward a Balance of Terror" speech · Les AuCoin Collection

Identifier: PUA_MS147_393
Title: "SALT II: Toward a Balance of Terror" speech
Description: A speech by U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin titled "SALT II: Toward a Balance of Terror" given on December 15, 1979, seven months after President Carter sent the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) to the Senate for ratification. In his speech, Congressman AuCoin adovcated for SALT II and expressed concern regarding the stalling of the treaty in Congress. SALT II was a treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter and the Soviet Union's leader 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: December 15, 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