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

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And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

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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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The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

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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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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.

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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.

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

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 19th, 1917

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