One residue of the Sixties was pressure to grant children various "rights"-- most

controversially on sexual matters (purchasing contraceptives, obtaining an abortion), but also freedom of expression. A spirited discussion, though not one that is likely to change anyone's mind. WFB: "Are you taking the position that, for instance, when the Supreme Court says that the rights of a free press are not confined to people who have reached their majority, does it follow that if the junior-high-school yearbook wanted to print a sex book, let's say, or give a list of the local whorehouses, there would be no authority to prevent that from happening?" HP "Well, I'd have to see the book. In any case, that precise question is pending for a decision before the ... United States Supreme Court

now, as you probably know, because a high-school paper, or it may have been a junior-high-school paper, was suppressed and--" WFB: "Whose side are you on there?" HP: "I'm on the side of the kids." WFB : "Well, how do you know that it's to be on the side of the kids to give them the authority to publish material that even majors weren't permitted to publish as recently as ten years ago?"