45 years ago today - Feb 17, 1981-Tuesday

[Leonard Arrington]

I learned that some time ago when Ed Lyon was in Nauvoo, Elder [Howard W.] Hunter and his family came there on a Church history trip. They would read about each area as they came to it, in their hotel room at night. In the course of Ed's comments to them as they were in Nauvoo, he told them some things that are not "traditional" history as it is generally taught. One of Elder Hunter's sons said, "Dad, why are we doing this and not telling people the truth? Why is our history written like that?" Elder Hunter is reported to have responded that he regretted that it was, and that he sincerely hoped that we would do better in the future.

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