When told that former Texas governor John Connally’s memoirs included a passage about Lyndon’s affair with Alice Glass, she coolly commented, “I would’ve thought Alice was too plump for Lyndon.” Her comment regarding Eleanor Roosevelt’s lifelong emotional estrangement from her husband as a result of his affair with Lucy Mercer sums up the philosophy that sustained Lady Bird. “What a shame,” she said of the Roosevelts, when Lucy was only a “fly on the wedding cake.”
