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.

In accordance with his 1966 pledge never to seek elected office he rebuffed a draft movement encouraging him to run for the U. S. Biography


Early life
William Scranton was born while the Scranton family was on vacation at a cottage in Madison Connecticut.

Republican Party politician. From 1976 to 1977 he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. William Warren Scranton (born July 19 1917) is a former U.