Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan (born March 18, 1945) is an American radio host and Republican strategist. His nationally-syndicated radio show, The Michael Reagan Talk Show, airs on stations throughout the United States on Radio America. Despite his successful media career, Reagan is the adopted son of the late President Ronald Reagan. He was born in California to Irene Flaugher, a single woman from Kentucky who became pregnant through an affair with an army corporal named John Bourgholtzer (died 1993), and was adopted by Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman shortly after his birth. Reagan grew up in Beverly Hills, California and later nearby Pacific Palisades. In his early adult years, Reagan raced boats and later also sold them at a California boat dealership. He set world records in power boat racing and raised more than $1.5 million for charities like the United States Olympic Team, Cystic Fibrosis and Juvenile Diabetes Foundations and the Statue of Liberty Restoration Fund through his race team. His efforts were recognized when he became a recipient of the Victor Award for outstanding sports and humanitarian achievement. His first entertainment broadcast job was as a game show host, in charge of the original syndicated version of Lingo, which was taped in Canada but broadcast in the United States. The show lasted only for the 1987-1988 season, and Reagan left the show before its demise in the wake of financial problems with the show’s producers. His talk radio career started in the Southern California local market as a guest host for Michael Jackson’s talk radio show slot on KABC-AM in Los Angeles. After this beginning, he landed a talk show spot on KSDO radio in San Diego, California. Reagan’s rating success in the San Diego market gave him the opportunity to take his talk show nationwide in 1992. Reagan continues to host his four-hour talk show, and also does public speaking to groups. Reagan’s radio program, The Michael Reagan Talk Show, is carried on numerous terrestrial stations, as well as on both major satellite-radio services, by Radio America.