Background Image

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.

-William Scranton

Please Wait....
Translating....

What I Had Said In The Morning

William Scranton

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.

Views: 11

Topic

More From William Scranton

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.

The Value Of Government To The People It Serves Is In Direct Relationship To The Interest Citizens Themselves Display In The Affairs Of State.

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.

And At Ten, Or Whatever Time, In The Morning We Had The Press Conference, What We Knew Is There Had Been An Incident At Three Mile Island, That It Was Shut Down, That There Was Water That Had Escaped But It Was Contained.

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.

Trending Author

Richard Hofstadter

Rebecca Harding Davis

Category