The hardhats gave him a brief restorative boost. On May 8, the day before his trip to the Lincoln Memorial, a wave of construction workers had charged into an antiwar demonstration in downtown Manhattan. Shouting “All the way U-S-A!” and “Love it or leave it!” the hardhats sang “God Bless America” and beat up some hippies and a stray Wall Street lawyer or two. Some of the construction workers wielded pipes wrapped in American
