Letter to Les AuCoin with attached excerpt from Abell's memoirs

Title

Letter to Les AuCoin with attached excerpt from Abell's memoirs

Description

A letter from Oregon journalist and author Ron Abell to US Congressman Les AuCoin, dated January 5, 2010, reflecting on Oregon politics in the 1960s and 1970s. Attached are two chapters of Abell's unpublished memoir describing his experiences working for The Oregonian in 1964 and the Palisadian-Post (of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, California) in 1962.
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

Abell, Ronald F.

Date Created

January 5, 2010

Subject

United States. Congress. House.
Legislators--United States
Newspapers--United States--History.
Abell, Ron, 1932-2012
Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portland (Or.)

Place

Oregon
United States
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles

Identifier

PUA_MS147_557

Rights

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

Source

Les AuCoin Papers, Pacific University Archives

Type

Text

Collection