[President Heber J. Grant Diary] Invited all the apostles to attend a meeting in the Presidency's office. We told them we were going to release Bishop Sylvester Q. Cannon on account of his poor health, and would choose a successor, and that we would sustain Brother Cannon as an apostle, although we would not make him a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, but promising him that the first vacancy he would become a member. We agreed to meet a few minutes before ten o'clock and ask the brethren to give me a list of names, one or more, their choice for Presiding Bishop. At this latter meeting we agreed on LeGrand Richards and called Brother McKay by telephone, and he said of course it was all right with him but he thought a certain other brother whom I do not need to mention would make a better executive. All of the brethren present voted for LeGrand Richards.
[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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