European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday january 17, 1969 Fred r. Harris a bundle of valuable contradictions letters to the editor by Mary Goddard of the Oklahoma City times Oklahoma City okla. A twelve years of hard driving Public life have betrayed nose rious political or personal flaws in Fred r.  few who know him doubt he can pull the double Load the democratic party has put on him senior senator from okla homa and National party chair Man. Harris always has been Workhorse. He was a vice presidential Long shot last year. Washington watchers now see him As a Man who Hopes to hit the White House track. At 38, Harris is a bundle of politically valuable contradict  is a sharecropper s son with an Oklahoma drawl and of ten rumpled shiny Black hair parted in the  under the bartender s Hairdo is a steel trap brain that earned him a Phi Beta Kappa key at the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1954. Despite roots in Rural South West Oklahoma Harris has be come one of the most eloquent leaders for help for the Urban slums notably in his outspoken role in the Kerner commission riot study. He never deviates from his shoes off wheat Belt informality and it serves him equally Well in a Cache. Okla., general store a corporate Board Roomer a Kennedy swimming Pool. He is an acknowledged Mem Ber of the innermost Senate establishment who also appeals to dissenting factions the Young the minorities and even some doves. The record shows hard work throughout the Senate term he began in 1965, ranging from chairmanship of the Senate sub committee on government re search to a record number of stars and stripes columns comment hours presiding Over the  s who can tick off his eight years in the Oklahoma Senate and his Washington la Bors but the formal summary interests capital observers less than what Harris can do behind the scenes. He managed to stay Friendly with both Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy clan. He a Minnesota s Liberal sen. Walter Mondale entered the Humphre Campaign labelled As brass boy scouts but wound up Ashard nosed architects ,01 an Al most successful  switch to Humphrey caused some bitterness in the Kennedy ranks but Only recently Harris brightened his credentials there by tar Hng 3nts weight into Teddy s upset leap into the Senate majority whip s seat. Harris began building personal political organization Back in 1963 when Robert s. Kerr King of the Senate died. Harris already was a vet eran of an abortive gubernatorial race. He said of that race later hell i be always been pre inti sumptuous. Nixon planning fewer photos by Vera Washington Nana president elect Richard Nixon plans a major cutback in the personal camera coverage which has chronicled virtually every waking moment Public and private of president John son s life in the White House. The disclosure was made by Ollie Atkins who will be Nixon s personal photographer. Atkins originally from bos ton mass., has been on leave since september from the sat urday evening Post where his pictures have appeared for 26years. He photographed the 1968 Nixon presidential Campai Gnand has worked with communications director Herb Klein Dur ing the transition. Glaser be shadowed Atkins said. This won t be anything like okie s operation. There will be a major  As Atkins foresees his Job there will be photographs made when president Nixon want them or when an official or member of the family want them but not of every breath they  the expense and secrecy of the Johnson picture system has stirred criticism although historians maintain the candid shots of a president in action will be priceless. President Johnson s photographic operation headed by Yoichi Okamoto is estimated conservatively to have Cost Al most $1.5 million Over a five year period. Okamoto has been assisted by two photographers a researcher and some 20 Laboratory technicians. All frequently worked around the clock turning out presidential in an activity treated in the White House Astop secret. The pictures estimated to number about 250,000 and largely taken by Okamoto Are file Din a heavily guarded unidentified Laboratory in Georgetown staffed partially by army Sig Nal corps an leghorn Mil Camp Darby 14�8, spa in i Madrid Civ memo ext. 711�,or Toti Ynot a kingdom London it Rump div 7j1w, Rui ii apr Mil w2w, it or