Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

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• William Scranton:

  What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no si

• William Scranton:

  There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's ra

• William Scranton:

  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, et cetera, had worked out what allowable releases are.

• William Scranton:

  And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

• William Scranton:

  I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairm

• William Scranton:

  But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more informatio

• William Scranton:

  And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had

• William Scranton:

  And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could

• William Scranton:

  There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not n

• William Scranton:

  Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation,