1. Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, The New Democracy, 1934. Our Government is no longer a laissez-faire Government, exercising traditional and more or less impersonal pow- ers. There exists in Washington a sense of responsibility for the health, safety, and well-being of the people. . . . I believe that we are at the dawn of a day when the aver- age man, woman, and child in the United States will have an opportunity for a happier and richer life. And it is just and desirable that this should be so. . . . We are not here merely to endure a purgatorial existence in anticipation of a beatific eternity after the grave closes on us. We are here with hopes and aspirations and legitimate desires that we are entitled to have satisfied to at least a reason- able degree. Nor will such a social program as we are discussing cause a strain on our economic system. 5. David E. Lilienthal, TVA: Democracy on the March, 1944. Written by the former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority. I believe men may learn to work in harmony with the forces of nature, neither despoiling what God has given nor helpless to put them to use. I believe in the great potentialities for well-being of the machine and technol- ogy and science; and though they do hold a real threat of enslavement and frustration for the human spirit, I believe those dangers can be averted. I believe that through the practice of democracy the world of technology holds out the greatest opportunity in all history for the development of the individual, according to his own talents, aspirations, and willingness to carry the responsibilities of a free man. . . . Such are the things that have happened in the Tennes- see Valley. Here men and science and organizational skills applied to the resources of waters, land, forests, and min- erals have yielded great benefits for the people. And it is just such fruits of technology and resources that people all over the world will, more and more, demand for them- selves. That people believe these things can be theirs — this it is that constitutes the real revolution of our time, the dominant political fact of the generation that lies ahead.What sorts of reasons do the authors of sources 1 and 5 give for supporting New Deal programs? What does the “good life” look like in their view, and how is it con- nected to the New Deal?

1. Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, The New Democracy, 1934. Our Government is no longer a laissez-faire Government, exercising traditional and more or less impersonal pow- ers. There exists in Washington a sense of responsibility for the health, safety, and well-being of the people. . . . I believe that we are at the dawn of a day when the aver- age man, woman, and child in the United States will have an opportunity for a happier and richer life. And it is just and desirable that this should be so. . . . We are not here merely to endure a purgatorial existence in anticipation of a beatific eternity after the grave closes on us. We are here with hopes and aspirations and legitimate desires that we are entitled to have satisfied to at least a reason- able degree. Nor will such a social program as we are discussing cause a strain on our economic system. 5. David E. Lilienthal, TVA: Democracy on the March, 1944. Written by the former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority. I believe men may learn to work in harmony with the forces of nature, neither despoiling what God has given nor helpless to put them to use. I believe in the great potentialities for well-being of the machine and technol- ogy and science; and though they do hold a real threat of enslavement and frustration for the human spirit, I believe those dangers can be averted. I believe that through the practice of democracy the world of technology holds out the greatest opportunity in all history for the development of the individual, according to his own talents, aspirations, and willingness to carry the responsibilities of a free man. . . . Such are the things that have happened in the Tennes- see Valley. Here men and science and organizational skills applied to the resources of waters, land, forests, and min- erals have yielded great benefits for the people. And it is just such fruits of technology and resources that people all over the world will, more and more, demand for them- selves. That people believe these things can be theirs — this it is that constitutes the real revolution of our time, the dominant political fact of the generation that lies ahead.What sorts of reasons do the authors of sources 1 and 5 give for supporting New Deal programs? What does the “good life” look like in their view, and how is it con- nected to the New Deal?