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
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.
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.
claimed hard people reward
(Lawmakers) claimed it was for their hard work. Well, you don't reward people for working hard. You reward people for getting results,
coming people power
I mean, obviously, people don't like to know that somebody's venting that, but you have sulfur dioxide coming out of power plants.
danger discern learn limits quickly tried whether
So very quickly we tried to learn what those allowable limits were and discern whether there was danger of those limits being breached.
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.
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.
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.
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.
remember walking
And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.
people want panic
And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.
ideas people would-be
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.
understanding needs judgment
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.
auxiliary basement building except floor happened looked nuclear power saw
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.