Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was natural on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, to John Edward Jack Reagan and Nellie Wilson Reagan. His father nicknamed him Dutch, saying he looked like a fat little Dutchman. During Reagans early childhood, his family lived in multiple towns, finally settling in Dixon, Illinois, in 1920, where Jack Reagan opened a shoe store. In 1928, Ronald Reagan graduated from Dixon High School, where he was an suspensor and student body president and performed in school plays.During summer vacations, he worked as a life ring in Dixon. Enrolling t Eureka College in Illinois on an athletic scholarship, Reagan majored in economics and sociology. There, he contend football, ran track, captained the swim team, served as student council president and acted in school productions. After graduating in 1932, he make a Job as a radio sports announcer in Iowa. In 1938, Reagan co-starred in the film familiar Rat with actress Jane Wyman. They got engaged at the Chicago the atre and then married on January 26, 1940.Together they had cardinal children, Maureen, and Christine (who was born in 1947 but only lived one day), and adopted a third, Michael. Following arguments about Reagans governmental ambitions, Wyman filed for dissociate in 1948. The divorce was finalized in 1949. He is the only US president to have been divorced. Reagan met actress Nancy Davis in 1949 later on she contacted him while he was president of the Screen Actors Guild to help her with issues regarding her name appearing on a communist blacklist in Hollywood (she had been mistaken for another Nancy Davis).She described their meeting by saying, l dont know if it was exactly love at first sight, but it was pretty close. They were engaged at Chasens eating place in Los Angeles and were married n March 4, 1952, at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley. They had two children named Patti and Ron. Friends described the Reagans relationship as close, authentic and intima te. He often called her Mommy she called him Ronnie. He once wrote to her, some(prenominal) I treasure and enjoy all would be without meaning if I didnt have you. When he was in the hospital in 1981, she slept with one of his shirts to be comforted by his scent. In a letter to U. S. citizens pen in 1994, Reagan wrote, l have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be discomfit with Alzheimers disease. I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful realise, and in 1998, while Reagan was suffering by Alzheimers, Nancy told Vanity Fair, Our relationship is very special. We were very much in love and still are.When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, its true. It did. I cant imagine life without him. Reagan stepped into the national political spotlight in 1964, when he gave a well- received televised speech for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, a dedicated conservative. Two years later, in his first race for p ublic office, Reagan defeated Democratic incumbent Edmund Pat Brown Sr. y almost 1 million votes, winning the California governorship. He was re-elected to a second term in 1970.