Career
He also created the book, "In Our Image" along with Time illustrator, Guy Rowe, a collection of Bible stories published in 1949 by Oxford University Press. Harte was instrumental in preserving historic Fort Concho in San Angelo. He also donated substantially to Angelo State University.
Harte was also a confidant of United States. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
His association with Johnson led him to end his longstanding friendship with a leading Johnson critic, the historian J. Evetts Haley.