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.

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• 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,

• William Scranton:

  By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

• William Scranton:

  They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to gi

• William Scranton:

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• William Scranton:

  You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that

• William Scranton:

  None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.