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.
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.
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.
understanding needs judgment
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.
radiation
There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.
calling early sources washington
They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed.
releases worked
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.