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
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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.
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The public schools, trade schools and research schools, these are the coal mines of the 21st century,
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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.
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These were professionals who were clearly working hard to get on top of things and were doing that, at least insofar as they could.
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You're in an unfriendly, to say the least, atmosphere, so you have to be completely protected from it, from every molecule of oxygen that's there.
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So very quickly we tried to learn what those allowable limits were and discern whether there was danger of those limits being breached.
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So what I bring to the table is a knowledge and experience at creating opportunity,
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We did not decide as a board to expand any of the lands for industrial use in South Wallingford.
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I mean, obviously, people don't like to know that somebody's venting that, but you have sulfur dioxide coming out of power plants.
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You clearly have radioactive air. The situation is still not under control because there's still radioactivity coming out into the atmosphere.
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(Lawmakers) claimed it was for their hard work. Well, you don't reward people for working hard. You reward people for getting results,
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You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.
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Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.
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And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.