What new roles did the federal government assume under great society initiatives, and how did they extend the new deal tradition?

Well, the New Deal extended the power, influence of the Federal Government. Nations can be pretty petty, and states - and state rule -

can be pretty backward and self-defensively obsessive in anti-progress

attitudes.

The Federal Government got employment for a lot of citizens, and had

many of them reconstructing our infrastructure. Roads, dams, etc ...

FDR was a wise-guy too, like politically incorrect, is common. Men's life-

expectancy didn't reach 65, the retirement age, though women's did ... by a

hair's breadth?