Oral history interview with Dave Phillips, January 27, 1999
Subtitle: interview I-0084, 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; Officials and employees; Politics and government; Furniture industry and trade; Industries; History; Economic policy; Labor supply; Public-private sector cooperation; Regionalism
Other titles: Interview I-0084, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Dave Phillips, January 27, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: S. Davis Phillips, a successful High Point, N.C., businessman and Commerce Secretary under Governor Jim Martin, discusses business in North Carolina and his own success as a businessman. Phillips helped build High Point into the global furniture capital it is today, and when he assumed his position at the Department of Commerce, he focused on luring businesses to North Carolina, a state where infrastructure and the natural environment provided their own incentives. Phillips is proud of his tenure in the government and of his efforts to push forward Martin's regionalist strategy of including every area of the state in North Carolina's economic development.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 24, 2007).

Interview participants: Dave Phillips, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer.

Duration: 01:03:19.

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-0084, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 29 p.

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

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