Title: Oral history interview with Lauch Faircloth, March 22, 1999
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.
Subjects: Interviews, Businessmen, Legislators, Politics and government, Industries, History, Industrial promotion, Industrial policy, Highway planning, Labor policy
Places: North Carolina
People: Lauch Faircloth (1928-)
Time periods: 1951-, 20th century