harcourt morgan, president of the university of tennessee.ked out an agricultural program for the whole area. david lilienthal, administrator and champion of legislation for cooperative electric power. george, the great american statesman who long had dreamed of regional land, setting up a national experiment in one region which could serve as a yardstick for every region. this was the plan. to chain the river through a series of giant dams checking the floods. to open it to navigation from its mouth to its head waters. to give the farmers the benefit modern science and research, to help them control the water on their land and restore the fertility of the soil, to reforest millions of acres on the ravaged hillsides, to exploit the mineral resources of the area, to use the electric power generated by the dams to develop and rehabilitate industry in the city's. to electrify the farms through cooperatives. above to prove that human problems can be solved by reason, science, and education. the tennessee valley was to be pioneered again. this tim