[President Heber J. Grant Diary] I spoke to Brother Richard R. Lyman about a Patriarch to the Church. I told him I did not appreciate the brethren saying they would support anybody I would recommend. I wanted it to be that whoever I recommend would be their man. They weren't to say, 'Well, I voted for him because Brother Grant recommended him' but I waned them to say 'I voted for him because he was my choice.' I told him I was for the Joseph F. Smith III. He grabbed me and hugged me and said he was the finest boy in the country. He said: 'I am delighted.' He said: 'My father taught me and I have said it to the brethren that when the chief made a recommendation we would never go wrong if we follow that recommendation.'
[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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