NARRATOR: David Lilienthal ridiculed Morgan's social programs and said valley life would improve if TVA focused on rapidly providing cheap electric power.
But President Roosevelt believed government could be a benevolent force in people's lives, and he wanted Arthur Morgan to prove it in the Tennessee Valley.
Morgan: "Roosevelt said to him: The TVA should relate to every area of human concern. They were interested in revitalizing the whole area, from top to bottom."
