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

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

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

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

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.

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.

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.