your dad is gutmann. >> yes. >> you're goodman. how'd that happen?d berhard eugen friedrich gutmann sounded a little too german, so he changed his name to bernard eugene goodman. >> did you ever ask your parents if you were jewish? >> yes, because my brother and i -- this is interesting -- have different experiences here because he's he's blond and blue-eyed. i'm olive-skinned. my name is simon goodman. everybody assumed i was jewish. >> did you practice judaism growing up? >> no, my mother had had me christened in the church of england. >> did that seem odd? >> it did seem odd. as usual, my mother interceded. she said, "well, yes, some of your family had been jewish originally." and that's about as much as i knew. >> in the early '70s, simon and nick, now in their 20s, both moved to los angeles to pursue careers in the music business. the distance between father and sons grows ever greater, especially after their parents divorce in 1973. >> as we got older, he actually shut down more, so it became harder and harder to get any information out of him.

amy gutmann. >> good evening everyone and what a good evening it is good evening. we gather at the national constitution center to honor a man renowned for, among other things, his deep respect for constitutional knowledge and tradition, and his abiding bipartisanship. two things in such short supply these days, that we all had to visit a museum to see it on display. now, in all seriousness, how very moving it is that the career long republican we celebrate tonight, by his is going to be -- is going to be introduced by his good friend, i'm equally renowned democratic senator and united states vice president, joe biden. this is really a momentous evening. such distinctively bipartisan friendship underscores why we so warmly celebrate this year's liberty medal recipient. on the occasion of awarding the liberty medal to this great patriot of our time, benjamin franklin had the perfect words, of course. for those of you who don't know, he is the founder of the university of pennsylvania. after britain imposed punitive restrictions of liberty on the american colonies, f