Nation: Voices from the Past

In his inaugural address. Pennsylvania's Scranton told of a troubling remark made to him by a young man during the campaign: "I can't for the life of me figure why anybody would want to be Governor of this state." And even as Scranton was taking the oath of office from State Supreme Court Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr., 70, who served 20 days as Governor in 1947, the problems of being Pennsylvania's chief executive were recalled by seven other ex-Governors. Their bitter sweet memories, as published in the Philadelphia Bulletin:

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