1351: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right (Matt Harris) - Pt. 2
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The Importance of Apologies in the Church
Benson thought he could take advantage of Kimball. They were in the quorum together in 1943. And President Kimball boy had a little more fire in his belly than Benson had predicted. So anyway, Benson had been talking to him nicely in private. Stop. And he wouldn't. Then he gives this controversial address in 1980. It's controversial because he's injecting politics again into the church body. He's laying the groundwork for his own church presidency. That's what they fear the most, these critics. so he apologizes in the temple to the 12. Apologize again to all the general authorities in our next week's meeting. Now we've got accounts from members of
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