Regarding Edward Lazear’s “Keep Your Tariffs off My Harley” (op-ed, Aug. 28): Since the turn of the century, Harley-Davidson Motor Company has retained its image as a classic American icon. It wasn’t always so. In 1969 AMF bought the company, slashed the workforce and streamlined production. It was a dark period as the bikes produced were of poor quality, leaked oil and were inferior to the Japanese competition. The company almost went bankrupt. Through sheer pluck, a group of investors and workers led by Willie G. Davidson bought the company for $80 million in 1981. Rather than trying to match the Japanese, the new management...