Oral history interview with Lauch Faircloth, March 22, 1999
Subtitle: interview I-0069, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Mosnier, Joseph, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Businessmen; Legislators; Politics and government; Industries; History; Industrial promotion; Industrial policy; Highway planning; Labor policy
Other titles: Interview I-0069, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Lauch Faircloth, March 22, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: North Carolina businessman and politician Lauch Faircloth describes his ascent through business and politics. As a businessman, Faircloth expanded from produce farming to concrete, timber farming, and hog growing. As a politician, Faircloth sought to create a business-friendly environment by discouraging union activity and building roads. Faircloth offers a look at the intersections between business and politics in a state concerned with growth and some of the strategies that attracted business to the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 24, 2007).

Interview participants: Lauch Faircloth, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer.

Duration: 01:30:28.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series I, Business history, interview I-0069, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 28 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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