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.
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.
knew looked none power
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
knew minutes putting radiation took
It took me 45 minutes to get in all of the suits and putting all the dosimeters on me so that they knew how much radiation I got and the protective boots and everything.
issue
But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
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.