have the valued opportunity to introduce a premiere story-teller, a statesman, author, historian, a servient, mountain climber and a friend, dr. bill bennett. [ applause ] >> thank you, thank you. i was trying not to be impolite, i was moving brian along because i got to be done at 1:40 and i got some things to say. good afternoon western conservatives. good afternoon, western -- i was the secretary of in the department i tried to abolish. that's an interesting -- they asked me when i got the job, must you exist? i said no, i need not exist. thank you, brian, very much. pleasure to be with you. love the folks at knus. treated me very well. i'm so glad brian introduced me. he's a proper sized man, and i appreciate that. andrews will be back to criticize me in a few minutes and that's fine too. i'll do it before andrews does. for those of you who don't know, there are 5413,000 foot peaks in colorado. i have climbed 33 of them. [ applause ] >> yeah, well, most of them were in earlier days. but i was at 13,000 almost on mt. colombia in boona vista. the only thing i can tell you is that when i ha

he was a servient who was going to be freed from his serve tud.ecause he tried to escape, he in 160 was recaptured and given a sentence of lifetime serve tud. that is the first time we have record of that happening in the americas. >> how common was it for a black african slave to have a child with a white woman? >> it wasn't as uncommon as we might think? actually the african population in colonial virginia was very small. at this time the racial attitudes hadn't really become as prejudice as they would later become because slavery didn't start in virginia until 1661. and so there were actually documented cases of interracial marriage back at that point. later as slavery became more common place, the para dime changed and that set the president for slavery as we came to know it. >> have you gotten any reaction from obama or anyone around him, the white house? have they talked to you about this? >> we haven't heard a response yet. we would love to hear what they have to say and what the president thinks about this. >> before you announce it public