the regrettable suation at that time was whether or not you had an anti-discrimination policy which protectedhe freedom of association of some or whether you try to go on individu liberty without being able to counteract the use of private force. in this transitional period, i was strongly in favor of title to and from a opposed to title 7 where i think the political dynamics worked in the opposite way. this is a second best world. to the extent that to a private files on one hand and social rights and the other, y have to decide which you will have to yield. if you ask me today whether i would want to continue public accommodations law, it becomes clear they beeome more insidious. that is like telling the boys get to they can admit and could they cannot. i am not a fan of their homosexual and exclusion property -- policy. above the boy scouts were correct whenhey tri to soft pedal the issue. i think that justice rehnquist got it right when th do not have to see it fr the tops of the trees to make their policy. they have delicate internal issues and the last thing you wann to do is have a los

but what would be the other unique suations that could happen to see if we need to do something different? i do know as an industry we will workard to come up with what's the ways wcan collectively do that. we need to have a collective response to how to deal with this. the industry needs to be prepared. this isn't something for each individual company to do. we want to have one best way that we can respond to a situation like this happens. i think we'll reflect on that more. if i'm on it, right now, i'm totally focused on the response of this well. >> thank you. other questions? senator graham? >> one of the issues that came up yesterday in florida was the fact that bp is at its core vertically integrated oil and gas company that it was called upon to undertake some tasks that were outside of that core responsibility, everything from dealing with the myriad of local officials, fishermen, setting up a complicated cash management and accounting system to reimburse legitimate claims are just some examples of that. how well equipped do you think bp was to take on those nontraditional respons