The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it†an additional tactic in this strategy of defense†is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  Economics and the Art of Controversy.

His critics called him a wheeler-dealer. Theyoverlooked the subtlety of Johnsonian strategy, his use of wheels within wheels.

-Manchester,William Raymond
  Of Lyndon B  Johnson. The Death of a President.