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Michael Reagan, nan eldest boy of Ronald Reagan and a blimpish commentator, has died. He was 80.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute announced his decease successful a station connected nan societal level X connected Tuesday, calling him “a patient guardian of his father’s legacy”.
“Michael Reagan lived a life shaped by conviction, purpose, and an abiding devotion to President Reagan’s ideals,” nan instauration said.
His origin of decease was not instantly announced.
Reagan was a contributor to nan blimpish Newsmax tv web and was known for his talk power program, The Michael Reagan Show.
He was calved to Irene Flaugher successful 1945 and adopted conscionable hours aft his commencement by Ronald Reagan and his then-wife, character Jane Wyman.
The young Reagan followed successful his parents’ footsteps.
After attending Arizona State University and Los Angeles Valley College, Reagan took up acting, playing successful tv shows including Falcon Crest, and he spent astir 2 decades arsenic a blimpish power talkshow host, speaking astir authorities and culture.
In 2 autobiographical books titled On nan Outside Looking In and Twice Adopted, he told of an at-times difficult childhood, which included coming to position pinch his adoption, and his travel of faith.
Reagan penned respective others, including Lessons My Father Taught Me, published successful 2016, wherever he elaborate lessons learned increasing up nan boy of Ronald Reagan.
Throughout his life, Reagan raised money and worked for charities, utilizing powerboat racing arsenic a intends of fundraising for nan Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Statue of Liberty Restoration Fund. Reagan sat connected nan advisory committee for Mixed Roots Foundation, which focuses connected foster attraction and take successful nan US and globally.
Reagan served arsenic chair of nan John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation committee for 3 years, moving connected nan aforesaid illness his begetter succumbed to successful 2004.
As president and chair of nan Reagan Legacy Foundation, he championed nan bequest of his father. The blimpish erstwhile president was known for trying to standard backmost authorities and devoting his presidency to winning nan acold war.
Michael Reagan’s 2nd and decades-long matrimony was to his woman Colleen, pinch whom he had 2 children.
