Roxanne Dubarry Poet Prose

Introduction to When I was younger

Introduction to When I was younger, My cousin Penny Lou Pennock,
(deceased as a drowning victim at only 18.)  Knew she would never
grow up nor grow old.  She was a stage actress at the Edmond's
Driftwood Theater and I wanted to be able to copy her.  

When I was a student at EVCC, the Watergate trials to impeach
President Richard M. Nixon were well underway.  His conspirators
broke into a psychiatric' s office and stole some damaging informational
confidential files on certain key members of the Democratic Party.

In his college days, he was considered to be paranoid, by his peers
even then. Before he entered into politics, he was well known to
 be a conspiracy theorist's. Who was always plotting and
scheming things. They were not surprised when he became en
tangled in Watergate during his term of presidency.  
This information was made public during that time.

LBJ was the vice president under JFK and became president instead,
once John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
during a campaign trip to Texas.  Lyndon B. Johnson was defeated by
Richard Nixon and his first Vice President Spiro Agnew.  His vice president
became the scrape goat and the first casualty of the Watergate investigations
President Nixon never served time for Watergate because he resigned.

According to Google: His second term (inaugurated Jan. 26, 1973);
Resigned Aug. 4, 1973.
 
That's when I caught "my journalism bug." And very briefly was a
journalism student at EVCC.  His second vice president, Gerald Ford, 
pardoned President Nixon.  He lost his re-election bide to another one
term President, Jimmy Carter, former Democratic Governor of Georgia.

After He was out of office, President Carter formed Habit for Humanity.
And both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter became close personal friends,
and widely traveled to foreign nations as "self appointed peace embassies."

When Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon
and President Gerald Ford from January 20,1973 to January 20, 1977. While
serving under his cabinet position, he served as National Security Advisor
for part of that time according to Google.

During those two administrations, he was the most televised Secretary of
State/ National Security Advisor during the Vietnam War and the cold war
between the United States and the former Soviet Union of Socialist Republic.
Both nations were engaged in 'an arms race.' All talks between both parties
for nuclear disarrangement's and reductions never really successfully
materialized.  

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (1 1969-1972) (11 1972-1979)
Which focused on limiting long-range ballistic missiles followed by
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (1 START) was initiated by U.S.
President Ronald Reagan in 1982 running through the 1980's to reduce
cold war nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and the Soviets rather than just
limiting them.  While signed in 1991 by U.S. President George H.W Bush,
originated from Reagan's efforts to reduced deployed missiles to 6,000.

Since I was alive during those times periods from Nixon to Ford and Carter
to Reagan and Reagan to his Vice President George H.W. Bush. I can recall
that the Soviet Union never once honored any of those treaties. What makes
anyone think that they would honor any now? 

Yes all of those treaties and related treaties have lapsed but they were never 
effective deterrents. Whenever the U.S. started reducing their nuclear arsenals;
the Soviets just beefed up theirs and called the Untied States, fools for believing
them! Instead of arms reductions and arms limitations it just resulted in more
arms races instead.  What started between the U.S. and the Soviets has caused
more and more countries interested in their own nuclear weapons programs.

The evil genie has been let out of the bottle and only Jesus Christ can defeat
Satan and his angelic and his human minions!

Does that mean that I am in favor of stockpiling nuclear weapons? No, I  am not.
Does that mean I am in favor of using them? No, I am not.  Will both Russia and
China invade and nuke the U.S after the rapture of the church?  According to
multiple dreams and visions by male and female Christian prophets over a
period of time? According to what the Holy Spirit has revealed to them?
The answer is YES!

After Republican Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, defeated Jimmy
Carter as President.  During His second term, he defeated Jimmy Carter's
Vice President, Walter Mondale.  Who was the former governor of the
state of Minnesota. 

Before he married American actress Nancy Davis Francis and
entered into politics for the Republican Party, he was a film actor
in several movies. 

Film actor Ronald Reagan made his famous statement in politics after he left
his film acting career.  (Made this self fulfillment prophetic statement), "I just got
elected as president of the United States." He served as American president and
Nancy Reagan as his first lady from 1981 to 1989.   

In the film "Knute Rockne, All American (1940) Where he portrayed the character
George Gipp. This line is often quoted as his transition from film actor to politician.
Information from DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia. (statement made in parentheses is mine)

When I was younger

I wanted to make the Grade--
by becoming a famous actress
on the stage 
That colorful opportunity--
Never even became
a reality.
Here's another poetic "rub"
because of Watergate--
I caught "The journalism bug."
If you don't believe me,
you can always ask my friends
and family.

"Wasn't it just too Bad, I didn't
even Know it?"

Apparently, my destiny was to
become a published poet.
(In several poetry anthologies)

(added on Feb 12, 2026)
Roxanne Dubarry
May 31, 2005

All of my love in Christ Jesus,
Roxanne Lea

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