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
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.
coal mines public research schools trade
The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century,
clearly hard insofar top
These were professionals who were clearly working hard to get on top of things and were doing that, at least insofar as they could.
area precise ready requires
Getting you ready to go into an area of radioactivity is an enormously complicated undertaking which requires actually very precise moves.
anchor gather happened initially news reporters trying
So, I was in a sense like a news anchor while reporters were out there trying to gather the information. That's what happened initially anyway.
donated freely front island microphone whoever
What is going on on the island is encouraging a cacophony of opinion, freely donated by whoever has a microphone in front of their mouth.
amount enormous generates plans talking unknown
We were talking about radiation, which generates an enormous amount of fear. This was unknown and so there were no plans for that.
cut government increasing instead state taxes
We need to cut taxes instead of increasing taxes and put the state government on a diet,
board decide expand industrial lands south
We did not decide as a board to expand any of the lands for industrial use in South Wallingford.
considered core source
Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.