Former Gov. Jim Hunt on Winning Elections and Hitchhiking for Love

Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 8:30 a.m.

If there was a Mount Rushmore of North Carolina politics, former Governor Jim Hunt would sit front and center. Find out how the paving of a road let him to politics and changed North Carolina history. He also gives some love advice after more than six decades of marriage through his personal story of hitchhiking to Iowa to make sure he spent holidays with the love of his life. He also talks candidly about his 1984 loss to Jesse Helms and whether or not the two time, two-term governor could win an election in today’s political climate.

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The Hunt Institute, The James B. Hunt Jr. Library