Les AuCoin Collection

House floor remarks and documentary on Cuba–Soviet Union relations video recording

A video featuring various televised programs from the early 1990s relating to Les AuCoin. House floor remarks are shown from the beginning of the video to the 9:39 minute mark. At the 2:57 minute mark, US Congressman Les AuCoin gives a speech explaining his decision to vote against a conference report on the basis of an outdated, Cold War-era high military spending budget and a presidential veto threat due to an overrided regulation that prohibited service women from purchasing abortion services abroad. From the 9:40 to the 40:58 minute marks, an unnamed documentary on the defense and state departments' report titled "The Soviet-Cuban connection in Central America and the Carribean," the history of the Cuban missile crisis and the relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union, the United States' interest in Cuba and concerns about security, and the significance of the Florida Straits and Yucatan Channel in U.S. foreign trade. From the 40:59 minute mark on is a discussion between Dr. Andres Vargas Gomez, writer and producer of the film, and Professor Richard Raleigh on the topic of the documentary.

This is a digitized version of an analog videorecording 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).

WLRN-TV Channel 17

1991-1992

PUA_MS147_vid_069

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Cold War

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 58 min, 19 s)

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Pacific University Archives

MP4