| In 1977 the members presented an exhibition of their great realizations into the following groups: knitting, weaving, sewing, quilting and boondoggling. |
| Dawson, in particular, argued forcefully that efforts to measure happiness with the aim of affecting changes to policymaking may amount to little more than boondoggling. |
| Some municipalities organized make-work projects, known as boondoggling, that tried to link work and relief. |
| Yet, despite being a harsh critic of the boondoggling ways of the administration, he has been more than tolerated by the powers that be. |
