policy. the dean remains opposed. >> senator sessions, larry summers and i always worked cooperatively on this policy. i didn't ever do ig that he didn't know about and he never did thag i didn't approve of. with respect to the decision that you're talking about, this was a joint decision that larry and i made that because dod thought that what we were doing was inappropriate, we should, in fact, reverse what we had done. that period lasted for a period of a few months in my six-year deanship, and long before the supreme court issued its ruling in the fair versus rumsfeld case, we were doing exactly what dod asked us to do. >> so it's your testimony that the decision you made immediately after the third circuit opinion, you concluded was inappropriate, you and president summers and you