Doug Gibson from the Ogden Standard-Examiner makes the argument that he did.
Someone who is older than I am should contrast this with what happened with ETB (that's the Batman/Hit Girl signal for LA Ute). Sometimes I hear the idea tossed around of an emeritus status for the President of the church, but maybe what is described above is how things have been handled since.When Kimball ascended to the presidency in 1973, he had already suffered serious health setbacks, including throat cancer, but was relatively vigorous. However, in 1979, the Mormon leader began to have subdural hematomas that required draining, and the process left him disoriented.
"Spencer’s personality after this surgery underwent a temporary change," Gibson writes, quoting from a biography by Edward Kimball, the president’s son. "Everyone became an enemy. He said hurtful things to (his wife) Camilla. He castigated the doctor for letting him go on a trip to Australia when no preparations had been made (they were in the U.S.). Camilla retreated to cry alone. … "
In the summer of 1981, Kimball’s mental "fog" lifted briefly, during which time he tapped Hinckley to help carry the leaders’ load. (Kimball’s two counselors, N. Eldon Tanner and Marion G. Romney, also were too old and infirm to run the ever-expanding church.)
After Hinckley was in place, Kimball "seemed to revert at once to his former condition and general ill health," Edward Kimball wrote, and "the fog descended again."
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsfa...ckley.html.csp