text:  So the father sat in a high-back chair at one end, the mother at the other end. Then on one side are the three Johnson sisters, Lyndon's three sisters. On the other side are Lyndon and Sam Houston. So I said to Sam Houston, sit down in the place you sat as a boy. And I didn't sit where he could see me because I wanted him to feel he was back at his boyhood, whom I sat behind him.