ABSTRACT
President Richard Nixon was indifferent to pictures and considered the work of Ollie Atkins, his chief White House photographer, an intrusion. Atkins, originally from Wellesley, Massachusetts, and a 1938 graduate of the University of Alabama with a journalism major, was a former Saturday Evening Post photographer and a talented shooter. Atkins, who had been Nixon's campaign photographer during his successful 1968 campaign, said in a 1971 interview: "He is accustomed to posing for news photographers. But he does not like to ham it up. He will not wear Indian hats or pose in shorts or violate what he consider his domain of privacy". Atkins was hoping for the kind of access that Lyndon Johnson had given to Okamoto. Atkins' relationship with Ziegler quickly deteriorated because of Ziegler's arrogant manner and the many restrictions he imposed. Even the photos of the president at the White House wedding of his daughter Tricia are nothing special.
