After it, ∴, ∵ of it.

After it, ∴, ∵ of it.

C.J.

Sir, this may be a good time to talk about your sense of humor.

BARTLET

[looks at his schedule] 

I’ve got an intelligence briefing, a security briefing,  and a 90-minute budget meeting all scheduled for the same 45 minutes. You sure  this is a good time to talk about my sense of humor?

C.J.

No.

BARTLET

Me neither.

LEO

What else?

C.J.

It’s just that it’s not the first time it’s happened.

BARTLET

I know.

TOBY

She’s talking about Texas, sir.

BARTLET

I know.

C.J.

U.S.A. Today asks you why you don’t spend more time campaigning in Texas and you say it’s 
‘cause you don’t look good in funny hats.

SAM

It was “big hats.”

C.J.

What difference does it make?

BARTLET

It makes a difference.

C.J.

The point is we got whomped in Texas.

JOSH

We got whomped in Texas twice.

C.J.

We got whomped in the primary, 
and we got whomped in November.

BARTLET

I think I was there.

C.J.

And it was avoidable, sir.

BARTLET

C.J., on your tombstone, it’s gonna read, 

“Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.”

C.J.

Okay, but none of my visitors are going to be able to understand my tombstone...

BARTLET

Twenty-seven lawyers in the room, anybody know 
“post hoc, ergo propter hoc?” 

Josh?

JOSH

Uh, uh, post, after, after hoc, ergo, therefore, after hoc, therefore, something else hoc.

BARTLET

Thank you. 
Next?

JOSH

Uh, if I’d gotten more credit on the 443...

BARTLET

Leo?

LEO

After it, therefore because of it. 

[Josh, a little weirded out, looks]

 After it, ∴, ∵ of it.

BARTLET

After it, therefore because of it. 

It means one thing follows the other, therefore it was caused by the other, but it’s not always True. 

In fact, it’s hardly ever True. 

We did not lose Texas because of the hat joke. 

Do you know when we lost Texas?

C.J.

When you learned to speak Latin?

BARTLET

Go figure.