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Michael Edward Reagan was born John Charles Flaugher at [[Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center]] in Los Angeles to Essie Irene Flaugher<ref name="autobiog">{{cite book |last1=Reagan |first1=Michael |last2=Denney |first2=James D. |last3=Denney |first3=Jim |title=Twice Adopted |date=2004 |publisher=B&H Publishing Group |location=Nashville, Tennessee |isbn=978-0-8054-3144-5 |pages=1–4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aeiyo_KOKIcC&pg=PA4 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999 |website=[[FamilySearch]] |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHP-4JHN |access-date=2024-02-23}}</ref> (October 18, 1916<ref>{{cite web|website=familytreemaker.genealogy.com|url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/e/f/Ann-Mefford/ODT1-0005.html|title=Genealogy of Campbell Rice|access-date=July 4, 2009}}</ref> – December 26, 1985),<ref>{{cite web|author=Dougherty, Margot|author2=Armstrong, Lois|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098541,00.html|title=Binding Up the Wounds|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=February 29, 2016}}</ref> an unmarried woman from [[Kentucky]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kydgi.ky.gov:2005/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FORP&CISOPTR=614&REC=2 |title=Irene Flaugher, mother of Michael Reagan |access-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928000520/http://kydgi.ky.gov:2005/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FORP&CISOPTR=614&REC=2 |archive-date=September 28, 2009 |publisher= Kentucky Historical Society|date = April 9, 2006}}</ref> who became pregnant through a relationship with John Bourgholtzer (1918–1993), a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] corporal. He was adopted by [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Jane Wyman]] shortly after his birth.<ref name=TwiceAdopted/>
He was expelled from [[Loyola High School (Los Angeles)|Loyola High School]] after a short period at the school<ref name=TwiceAdopted>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Reagan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aeiyo_KOKIcC&q=michael+reagan+at+loyola+high+school&pg=PA168|title=Twice Adopted: An Important Social Commentator Speaks to the Cultural Ailments Threatening America Today|publisher=B&H Books|location=Nashville, Tennessee|date=2005|isbn=0805431446|page=168}}</ref> and in 1964, he graduated from the [[Judson School]], a boarding school outside of [[Scottsdale, Arizona]].<ref name=Tribune041788>{{cite news|first=Cheryl|last=Lavin|url=
In 1965, the FBI warned Ronald Reagan that in the course of an organized crime investigation it had discovered his son Michael was associated with the son of a crime boss [[Joseph Bonanno]], which would have become a campaign issue had it been publicly known. Reagan thanked the FBI and said he would tell his son to discreetly discontinue the association.<ref>{{cite book |first=Seth|last= Rosenfield|title=Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power |publisher=[[Picador (imprint)|Picador]]|location=London, England|date=2013|isbn=978-1250033383|page=297}}</ref>
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===Radio===
His work in [[talk radio]] started in the [[Southern California]] local market as a guest host for radio commentator [[Michael Jackson (radio)|Michael Jackson's]] talk radio show slot on [[KABC (AM)|KABC]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="latimes-reagan">{{cite news|first=Judith|last=Michaelson|url=
Reagan also hosted ''The Michael Reagan Show'' nationwide for most of the 2000s. The show was variously syndicated on [[Premiere Networks]]<ref name="latimes-reagan"/> and [[Radio America (United States)|Radio America]].<ref name=RadioAmericaReplaced>{{cite press release|author=Staff|title=Roger Hedgecock Goes Daily with Radio America|url=http://www.kcbd.com/story/9249929/roger-hedgecock-goes-daily-with-radio-america|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426232821/http://www.kcbd.com/story/9249929/roger-hedgecock-goes-daily-with-radio-america|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 26, 2014|location=Lubbock, Texas|publisher=[[KCBD]]|date=October 28, 2008|access-date=April 25, 2014}}</ref> Since then he has focused on public speaking about his father.<ref name="Radar11192014">{{cite news|first=Melissa|last=Cronin|url=http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/11/racist-reagan-michael-mexicans-court-case|title=Racist Reagan! Son of Former President Caught in Scandal Over Hateful Rants About 'Mexican A**holes' & Muslims|work=Radaronline.com|date=November 19, 2014|access-date=November 30, 2014}}</ref>
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[[Category:American talk radio hosts]]
[[Category:California Republicans]]
[[Category:Children of Ronald Reagan|Michael]]
[[Category:Journalists from California]]
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