William Scranton
William Scranton
William Warren "Bill" Scrantonwas an American Republican Party politician. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. From 1976 to 1977, he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 July 1917
CountryUnited States of America
people want panic
And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.
school people radiation
There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.
remember walking
And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.
morning facts moments
What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.
morning islands eight
The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
morning giving firsts
I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.
strong morning essence
Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.
morning thursday worst
By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
relationship government people
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
suits tests take-me
My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.
morning islands water
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.