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The Butterball Hotline

Toby: Four million people became poor on the President's watch?

Sam: They didn't become poor, they were poor already. And now we're…calling them poor.

Toby: What was wrong with the old formula?

Sam: I don't know.

Toby: Find out.

Sam: It's possible that this is a statistical reality and not a political finding.

Toby: Well, get with someone at OMB and find out what was wrong with the statistical reality of the old formula. Do it today.

Sam: Yeah.

Toby: It's like when they did the thing with the SAT scores and I got dumber 20 years after I went to college.

Toby: Before anything else, I was hoping I could impose on you for as much information as you can spare about making a turkey.

Bartlet: This is some pre-emptive psychological thing?

Toby: Yeah.