Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harrisburg, Governor Thornburgh, who had carefully avoided any statements that might cause panic, even while remaining skeptical of the utility company's pacifying pronouncements, decided it was time to warn people living near Three Mile Island to take prudent precautions. First, he asked all residents within ten miles to remain inside their homes with their windows closed (though in fact that provides scant protection from radiation). Then he urged pregnant women and young children within a five-mile radius to move out, and closed schools. He also took the broader step of advising the four counties in the area, where...
...House task force to coordinate all federal assistance. The group's first move was to send the NRC'S chief operations officer, Harold Denton, to Three Mile Island. He carried with him legal authority to take complete charge, overruling plant officials if he thought it necessary. Carter also called Governor Thornburgh and asked how the state could be helped. Citing overloaded telephone circuits, Thornburgh asked for a clear line. Carter dispatched an entire communications team to tie the Governor's office in to the plant, NRC headquarters in Washington, and the White House...
Although the Defense Department was preparing plans to feed and house evacuees, any decision on evacuation remained with the Pennsylvania Governor...
...White House has taken a low-key approach, forming a task force to gently persuade uncommitted state legislators to vote against budget-balancing resolutions. A key target is New Hampshire, which holds hearings this week. Expected to testify on behalf of the proposals is California Governor Jerry Brown, who has made opposition to deficit financing a central theme of his pre-presidential campaign. Another target is Ohio, where a legislator received a letter from Jimmy Carter denouncing the amendment as "political gimmickry" that would be "so filled with loopholes as to be meaningless or so rigid...
Last week, after lunching with Cohn and Benson Ford, New York Times Columnist William Safire wrote a savory story. He reported that New York Governor Hugh Carey, the longtime suitor of Ford's daughter Anne, had prevailed on Frank Sinatra to meet with Ford. Safire speculated broadly that Ford hoped that Sinatra's gangland contacts would get to Cohn's underworld law clients and persuade the lawyer to lay off. The column raised such a furor that Safire rather grudgingly wrote another piece reporting the many disclaimers...