40 years ago today - Jul 22, 1978-Saturday

[Leonard Arrington]
... [A Knoff editor] Asked me if the Deseret Book would "feature" it [The Mormon Experience]; I said I was sure they would unless President [Spencer W.] Kimball died before the book was out. If he should die, I expressed doubt. He asked who would replace him. I said Brother [Ezra Taft] Benson. ...

[Source: Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]

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