Hi! My name is Ronald Reagan. I was born February 6, 191, in Tampico, Illinois. My nickname was “Dutch.” I had 2 brothers. One of my brothers was named “Jack Reagan,, and the other’s name was “Neil Reagan.”In 1932 I went to Eureka College at Eureka, Illinois. After college I was a radio announcer for HWO. I mainly did the games for the Chicago Cubs. When the Cubs went to Los Angeles, I really wanted to be an actor. In January, 1940, I married Jane Wyman and had 2 child named Maureen and then 4 years later Jane and I adopted a boy and named him Michael. At the end of 194,7 Jane Wyman wanted to have a divorce. Then in 1952, I married Nancy Davis; we had a daughter named Patti, and a son 6 years later. November 4, 1981, I became the 40^th president of the USA and served for 2 terms. March 30, 1981, after a speech I got shot in the chest. 1987 I asedk if I could make a speech in West Berlin, and I said “Mr.Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” And I ended the Cold War peacefully. In 1994, I learned that I had Alzheimer’s disease. I died June 5, 2004, and was buried in Simi Valley, California at the age of 93.

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