Word: aucoin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressmen invited by the Institute are Les AuCoin (D-Ore.), David F. Emery (R-Me.), James J. Florio (D-N.J.), Harold Ford (D-Tenn.), Carroll Hubbard (D-Ky.), and Robert W. Kasten...
...AUCOIN. Taking a Northwest Oregon district that had not gone Democratic in 81 years, AuCoin (pronounced Oh-coin) is a smooth-talking politician who wears conservative dark suits but is a thorough liberal. As majority leader in the Oregon legislature, AuCoin, 32, championed environmental issues, consumer protection and civil rights. His opponent, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, former director of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality, was similarly strong in supporting protective environmental measures. But AuCoin, a former newspaperman and university publicist, proved more impressive on television and ran a better-organized, labor-supported campaign...