Playboy After Hours
February, 1971
One of the President's prerogatives is to appoint commissions of acknowledged experts to study urgent national problems and propose solutions. This poses a secondary problem for every Administration: how to gracefully ignore or tactfully reject such reports if they prove unpalatable. In the case of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, Mr. Nixon has an easy out. The commission was appointed by his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, who packed it with scholars, intellectuals, Democra...
