Ron Reagan

He also had two half-sisters born to Reagan and Wyman, Maureen Reagan (1941–2001) and Christine Reagan, who was born prematurely, on June 26, 1947, and died the same day.

At an early age, his father, Ronald Reagan, often joked that they were related to every royal family with the name O'Regan in Europe.

Burke's Peerage provided the Reagans with their family tree, which lacked any direct connection to European royalty.

Ron Reagan undertook a different philosophical and political path from his father at an early age.

At 12, he told his parents that he would not be going to church anymore because he was an atheist.

Reagan attended and was expelled from The Webb School of California.

He commented:

"They [the school administration] thought I was a bad influence on the other kids. As I recall, the immediate reason was I went to a dance at a neighboring girl's school in a classmate's car. This was an infraction. They had been looking for an excuse. I didn't get caught at anything."

Ronald Prescott Reagan (born May 20, 1958) is an American political commentator and broadcaster.

Reagan is a former radio host and political analyst for KIRO and Air America Radio, and hosted his own daily three-hour show there.

He has also been a contributor to MSNBC.

His liberal views contrast with those of his conservative father, President Ronald Reagan.

He has been an outspoken critic of the modern day Republican Party, and has insisted that his father would be "ashamed" over the influence of Donald Trump in the Republican Party.

Reagan was born on May 20, 1958, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

He is the youngest son of Ronald Reagan and his second wife, Nancy Davis Reagan.

The family lived in Sacramento while his father was governor, from 1967 to 1975.

His sister, Patti Davis, is five and a half years older.

His older brother Michael Reagan, adopted as an infant by Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, is 13 years older.

Reagan dropped out of Yale University in 1976 after one semester to become a ballet dancer.

He joined the Joffrey Ballet in pursuit of his lifelong dream and participated in the Joffrey II Dancers, a troupe for beginning dancers, where he was mentored by Sally Brayley.

Time wrote in 1980: "It is widely known that Ron's parents have not managed to see a single ballet performance of their son, who is clearly very good, having been selected to the Joffrey second company, and is their son nonetheless. Ron talks of his parents with much affection. But these absences are strange and go back a ways."

The parent Reagans went to see Ron perform at the Lisner Auditorium on Monday, May 18, 1981.

The elder Reagan commented in his White House diary on this day that Ron's performance was "darn good" and reminiscent of Fred Astaire.

Reagan, who was 22 and married by the time his father took office, never lived in the White House.

He dropped his Secret Service protection eighteen months into his father's presidency.

In February 1986, Reagan hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live.

Reagan became more politically active after his father left the White House in 1989.

In contrast to his father, the younger Reagan's views were unabashedly liberal.

He has served on the board of the Creative Coalition, an organization founded in 1989 by a group that included Susan Sarandon and Christopher Reeve, to politically mobilize entertainers and artists, generally for First Amendment rights, and causes such as arts advocacy and public education.

In 1991, Reagan hosted The Ron Reagan Show, a syndicated late-night talk show addressing political issues of the day, which was canceled after a brief run since it was unable to compete with the higher ratings of The Arsenio Hall Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Nightline.

Reagan has worked in recent years as a magazine journalist and has hosted talk shows on cable TV networks such as the Animal Planet network.

In Britain, he is best known for having co-presented Record Breakers (based on The Guinness Book of Records) for the BBC.

Reagan presented a report from the United States each week.

From February to December 2005, Reagan co-hosted the talk show Connected: Coast to Coast with Monica Crowley on MSNBC.

Until its demise in 2010, Air America Media aired The Ron Reagan Show. The program made its debut on September 8, 2008.

In a 2009 Vanity Fair interview, Ron said that he did not speak out politically during his father's term because the press "never cared about my opinions as such, only as they related to him", adding that he did not want to create the impression that he and his father were on bad terms because of political differences.

In 2011, he published My Father at 100: A Memoir.

In interviews promoting the book, Reagan described noticing his father was having certain mental lapses which, in hindsight, caused the younger Reagan to speculate subsequently that his father may have already been in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease while still in office.

This assertion was attacked by critics, including his brother, Michael Reagan.

Ron Reagan subsequently clarified that he did not feel the lapses were evidence of "dementia."