Charles W. Bray, 72; Held Positions in Nixon, Carter and Reagan Administrations
Charles W. Bray, 72, spokesman for former Secretary of State William P. Rogers during the tumultuous days of the Nixon administration, died Sunday of pneumonia at his home in Milwaukee.
Bray was Rogers’ press secretary during much of the Vietnam War but resigned in 1973 after Henry Kissinger replaced Rogers as secretary of state. Bray left because he was angry that the White House, acting without court orders, had wiretapped some high-ranking State Department officials.
He was later deputy director of the U.S. Information Agency under President Carter and ambassador to Senegal under President Reagan.
After leaving government service, he was president of the nonprofit Johnson Foundation, which holds conferences on development, environmental and educational issues, from 1988 to 1999.
Bray was born in Princeton, N.J., and graduated from Princeton University, where his father was a psychology professor. After college, he joined the foreign service and was stationed in the Philippines and later the Central African Republic.
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