And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

There may be no more quietly accomplished official in American political life than former

governor Mike Levit of Utah.

He served three terms there as administrator of the EPA under George W. Bush.

And then in Bush's second term as secretary of health and human services, Mike Levit is

deeply respected by people on both sides of the aisle, something that's hard to find these

days, and had a deep hand in two issues that are on the front burner in Washington today,

healthcare and the environment.

We talked about it the other day when we sat down at the University of Chicago.

Governor Mike Levit, thank you so much for being here.

You know, I am getting ready to have this conversation today.

I looked at a little bit of your history and I can't say that I know anybody else who can

point to their lineage on down one lane to the Puritans and the other two Mormon pioneers.

Tell me about your family.

Well I'm a westerner and that is of course by heritage.

My father's heritage comes from England.

My mother's comes from Sweden.

They were both Mormon pioneer families who found their way in different ways, actually

through Illinois, and then to Utah.

My father grew up in a small town in the south, the southern corner of Nevada called Bunkerville.

My mother in a very small town, I were talking a town of 300 people in both these cases,

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