You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor.
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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.William Scranton
There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.
William Scranton
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
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By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
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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.
William Scranton
We were talking about radiation, which generates an enormous amount of fear. This was unknown and so there were no plans for that.
William Scranton
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