LINCOLN- In October of 1936 FDR stood before the recently completed State Capitol in Lincoln and addressed citizens standing on the opposite side of K street. He remarked:

"I have seen — in fact all of the people of America have seen — photographs and illustrations of this wonderful Capitol building," he told the crowd. "Every one of them ought to come here to see it in the light — a great and worthy structure, worthy of a great state."

A year later, when Congress OK'd funding for a new naval hospital near Washington, D.C., the president grabbed a piece of White House stationery and sketched a familiar shape. FDR's initial design — a line sketch showing a doorway, a two-story base and a 15-story tower — already exceeded D.C.'s 130-foot height limit, and was moved outside the city.

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