Ronald Prescott Reagan was born on May 20,1958 and is an American political commentator and broadcaster.
26 Facts About Ron Reagan
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Ron Reagan was born on May 20,1958, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Ron Reagan is the youngest son of Ronald Reagan and his second wife, Nancy Davis Reagan.
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Ron Reagan had two half-sisters born to Reagan and Wyman, Maureen Reagan and Christine Reagan, who was born prematurely, on June 26,1947, and died the same day.
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Ron Reagan undertook a different philosophical and political path from his father at an early age.
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Ron Reagan attended and was expelled from The Webb School of California.
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Ron Reagan dropped out of Yale University in 1976 after one semester to become a ballet dancer.
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Ron Reagan 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.
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The elder Reagan commented in his White House diary on this day that Ron's performance was "darn good" and reminiscent of Fred Astaire.
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Ron Reagan, who was 22 and married by the time his father took office, never lived in the White House.
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Ron Reagan dropped his Secret Service protection eighteen months into his father's presidency.
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In February 1986, Ron Reagan hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live.
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Ron Reagan became more politically active after his father left the White House in 1989.
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In contrast to his father, the younger Ron Reagan's views were unabashedly liberal.
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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.
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Ron 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.
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Ron Reagan presented a report from the United States each week.
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Ron Reagan 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.
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From February to December 2005, Ron Reagan co-hosted the talk show Connected: Coast to Coast with Monica Crowley on MSNBC.
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Ron Reagan is not a member of a political party, but votes Democratic.
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In July 2004, Ron Reagan spoke at the Democratic National Convention about his support for lifting Bush's restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, from which he expected a cure or new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, of which his father had recently died.
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Ron Reagan voted for Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
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Ron Reagan endorsed Senator Barack Obama of Illinois for president in the 2008 presidential election.
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In November 2015, Ron Reagan endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2016 Democratic Party primaries.
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Ron Reagan married Doria Palmieri, a clinical psychologist, in 1980.
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Ron Reagan stated in a 2004 New York Times interview that he did not claim any religion, but that his sympathies were with Buddhism and his wife was a Buddhist.