On Bill Maher's Thoughts of 2005 at Huffington Post

Mr. Maher has reminded me of an American History episode, about how did all those Texians get in here? Robert Gardiner, the last heir to what was the manor of Gardiners Island "out east" on Long Island (where Pinewood West Studios is) told us that his great-aunt First Lady Julia Gardiner was very influential in getting Texas into the Union, so much so, Gloria Swanson said to him it would take a Vivian Leigh to play her. She was 19 or so below decks with the recently widowed President Tyler on the US Princeton, when the "Peacemaker" cannon, supplied "free" by the Haddersley Forge of NYC, exploded killing her father Senator Gardiner, two Cabinet members and others, while they were both raising a toast of champagne. She fell into his arms, in the finest Parisian fashion, where the Gardiners often schooled, and later added four children to President Tyler's ten. She was said to have been the "prettiest First Lady" ever and her persuasion helped get Texas into the Union according to Mr. Gardiner, now deceased. Ex-President Tyler was in charge of Richmond, VA during the Civil War, and died there, after Julia Gardiner rushed from Tidewater up in the middle of the night on horseback, a premonition driving her. Both the Union and the Confederacy ceased hostilities long enough to let the grieving First Lady through enemy lines back to New York City, where she was later the center of the press' attention over a contested will regarding expensive Manhattan real estate. Mr. Gardiner relayed that during Law School he hid from the "precedent" attributed to his name the case set. He also served in WWII in the Navy aboard the "U.S. Princeton" in Naval Intelligence. It remains to be seen what will happen to Gardiners Island, in the family since 1639. And that's how Texians became Texans and every farm hand in the U.S. got the name "Tex"? Happy New Year Bill Maher and everyone else. It's good to see someone can breakout of type casting.