Roger W. Tubby; Served in 3 Presidential Administrations
Roger W. Tubby, press secretary to President Harry S. Truman and a member of the Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy administrations, died Monday.
Tubby, 80, died at his home here after a long bout with cancer.
He once described his career in three Democratic administrations as being “like a yo-yo.” He was Truman’s press secretary after Truman was elected President in 1948. Truman had assumed the post in 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Tubby also served in the Johnson and Kennedy administrations as an assistant secretary of state and as ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
In 1976, Tubby accepted a job as a deputy commissioner for the New York state Department of Parks and Recreation.
He was appointed chairman of the New York State Tourism Advisory Council in 1984, retiring in 1988.
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