rather than the states creating this patchwork of laws and the proper way is going through the fda to create whatever derivative of marijuana we want to address specific issues and make sure they are safe and effective. >> campaign 2016 is right around the corner. if the road to the white house come to nebraska, what will they hear? governor ricketts: one thing you will hear is that people are concerned about the future. they want to make sure their kids can continue to grow up in a place where they have the opportunity to pursue the american dream and they are concerned about the direction the country is going and the influence of washington, d.c. most nebraskans are engaged locally and would prefer the federal government stick to a few things and let most governing be done at the local level. we have a very diverse state, we have a lot of different needs, and we have found solutions that fit locally. that is how nebraska thinks.

any candidate that comes here will find what they are going to hear is nebraskans want to be left alone and let us manage our own business. >> you mentioned government at the local level. the nebraska state government is set up unlike any other state in the country. can you explain that? governor ricketts: we are a very different state. nebraskans are very independent and one thing we have is a one house legislature, put in place in the 1930's. it is also a nonpartisan legislature. one of the benefits as i talk to colleagues around the country is it tends to be less partisan and other statehouses around the country. nebraskans have a great history of coming together to solve their common problems and cooperate. probably part of that pioneer spirit is you have to work together to survive. that culture has really carried down through the statehood to

get us to a point where we can figure out how to work together. >> we continue the city's tour on lincoln, nebraska. nebraskaith the capitol's architect, the tallest building in nebraska. ms. wagner: this is the archival collection for the nebraska state capitol. we house the architectural materials related to the design and construction of the present state capital. one of the things that makes our building unique is the fact that we have this amazing collection of materials that document the construction of the building. when the decision was made that nebraska needed a new state capital, the legislature put together a commission to oversee the design and the construction of the building.

the commission put together a competition to select an architect. the unique part about this competition was it was a double-blind competition. so, the competitors did not know who the judges were in the judges did not know who the competitors were. the advantage to this process was the architects could design to the specifications that were put in front of them instead of designing to the known taste of the judges. they were able to come up with solutions they might not have normally. the winning design was very unique. it had a tower instead of the traditional federal capital style building. this shows the process. we have the north and the south parts of the building going up

around the previous capital. once the north and south sections were done, they moved the employees out of the building into temporary quarters in the new building, and in 1925 they took down the old building and continued construction of the new building. each competitor was required to submit perspective drawings for what they envisioned their designs to look like. one of those requirements was for a main entrance detail. this is bertram goodhue drawing of the proposed main entrance to his nebraska state capitol. the ink wash drawing is amazingly detailed. it shows that he was looking at a very classical structure originally.

there are features -- certainly between the time of the competition and the construction features were changed to a point. some of the features are still there but he cleaned up the design so it is less classical and much more modern 1920's design. so, the pioneer panel with the conestoga wagon exists now, that there are some columns there. the entryway is now arched. the figures are still there, but they are engaged into the structure rather than a separate structure. the seals on the front of the building are still there. the sculptures are here and the fountains are not. each was required to include a figure for scale.

while the competitors did not know the judges, they were certainly aware of the politics at the time and bertram goodhue included a figure that looks remarkably like williams jennings bryan. we have the artwork for the construction of the rotunda and floor for the building. the architect created a plan of what they proposed the floor would look like. they colored in the marble. they had their mosaicist pencil in the design she was proposing for the floor. she also created larger scale piece is that were sent to both -- i presume -- both the architect's office in new york and later commissioned in lincoln.

the design for the rotunda of floor showed mother earth and the four elements of water, air, fire, and earth. and the design she created -- the designs she created were for the most part as she created them with the exception of mother earth. in the final design it is very different. mother earth is seated in a throne with her children around her. part of the design process, she not only created the small pieces to show the commission what she was thinking of doing, she created a full scale figure to show them, this is what the mosaic will look like on the floor of the rotunda. another key piece in the rotunda floor is the ribbon that runs

around the con die on the floor. that ribbon shows the history of creatures and animals that lived in the nebraska territories from the earliest known points. certainly, she was not an expert in paleontology. the commission worked with a paleontologist from the university of nebraska. he created a series of drawings that depicted the various creatures they were proposing to put on the floor of the rotunda. and he created these drawings in amazing color detail, even though it was already known the floor was going to be black and white marble. she was able to take his drawings and alter them to the point where she could fit them

within the bounds of that ribbon. and created just this amazing progression of animals on the floor. this drawing shows the floor as built. certainly after this design was completed they were able to draw this all in and this is beautiful documentation of what the whole floor looks like in a way where you can't see any in person. the building was constructed during the depression and the commission was very aware of the need to be prudent with the dollars for the citizens of nebraska. the decision was made to cut certain pieces out of the budget that could then be added later. one of those things was the near murals that would fill

the walls in the foyer, vestibule, and rotunda in the building. that would be very easy to add a later date. in the 1950's, the legislature decided that there were funds available to start working on the artwork in the building. in 1954 there was a competition artist tolect an produce murals for the rotunda in the building. on that evans w competition and in installed 1956 three pieces. we have the maquettes for the competition in our competition. we have the labors of the head, the labors of the hand, and the labors of the heart. they depict activities that

people in nebraska would be participating in. there was certainly some controversy after the artwork was installed. the very first piece to go in was the labors of the hand, including the depiction of a farmer with a bull. there was lots of media coverage bull the bull was a square and it looked like it was t square and a what kind of bowl has those kinds of lines. the surprising thing was it was not just in the lincoln paper, but covered nationally in 1956.