'I'm just getting in style'
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To everyone who noticed President Gordon B. Hinckley with a walking cane during General Conference, the prophet on Sunday afternoon offered a "little explanation."
"Everyone is talking about why in the world I am walking with a cane," he said. "That has become the topic of conversation these days."
President Hinckley said he had observed that Presidents Brigham Young, John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff all used canes, as did Heber J. Grant, David O. McKay and Spencer W. Kimball.
"I am just getting in style," he mused.
Then, on a more serious note, President Hinckley explained that he has some dizziness.
"I am a little unsteady on my feet and the doctors don't know why it is," he said, "but they are still working on me and I hope we will be over it in a day or two."
