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who uh has come to us uh and he’s a very unique individual. He happens to be the

oldest of four children of the 40th president of the United States. His name

is Michael Reagan. Michael, thank you for joining us here today on Grassroots

Truthcast. Good to be with you. But I also had a mother, Jane Wyman.

And to let you know, I was Jane Wyman’s son until November of 1964.

And my father gave that great speech, a time for choosing. And the next day I

became Ronald Reagan’s son. So for half my life, I was explaining I had a father. and the last half of my life I’m

explaining I had a mother. Well, there’s

that and we’re gonna get into that and a whole plethora of issues of what Michael

Reagan who’s out in the uh West Coast uh in California right now. We’re going to

talk about Michael’s uh history, uh his past that he’s just described, and um uh

the Reagan Legacy, what he’s doing now with it, and where it’s going right after this.

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Hi friends and welcome back to Grassroots Truthcast and my guest today, Michael Reagan, one of four children of

Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, award-winning actress in California. Michael, I thought today we’d talk in

the beginning about the past, what it was like being the president’s son, your

early days in the Reagan household, and then let’s transition to some of the current events and some of the legacy

issues that you’re involved in in the found including the foundation about the about your background. Tell us tell us

the early days of the Reagan family. You know, it’s really interesting because I go out and speak and I’m a really good

speaker and in fact I’m giving a speech in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania next week

and if I open it up to Q&A, which I normally do, that’s the first question. First question is, how was it growing up

in that household? And I could have told them the World Trade Center just got hit by planes. They go, “Yeah, but how was

it being raised in the Reagan household?” I mean, that’s what you deal with on a regular basis. I mean, I’m

there’s only two people, and that was my sister, Moren, and I born into a family

where the mother would go on to become an Academy Award-winning actress, and the father would go on to become president of the United States. No other

two people have ever lived that life ever, and it would probably never ever

happen again. And and so people ask me that question all the time. It was it wasn’t much different except that I was

in Hollywood. And all the Hollywood kids, we all went to boarding school. People say, “When did you leave home?” I

said, “I was six.” Six? Yeah. We all went to boarding school. Six years old, you can go to

first grade. And so I went to boarding school. Like my sister went to boarding school. Like Crosby kids went to

boarding school. Like the Hope kids went to boarding school. It was like student body right, student body left. And it

sucked. If you you go back to a six-year-old, seven-year-old, 8-year-old, and you see other kids being picked up by their

parents who are day students and you’re going to a dorm at night, sleeping in a dorm without your family. I mean, I

understand it now. I’m older and if you don’t end up dealing with it, you’ll be

a ticked off child all of your entire life because it’s not easy uh just

seeing your parents on the weekend and basically having to reintroduce yourself to him. Say, “I’m your son, Michael. I

was here last Sunday. Remember me? You dropped me off at school. So that that’s what it was growing up. But my dad who

was terrific is my mom and dad divorced when I was three. And she won the Academy Award in 1948, best actress for

Johnny Belinda. And my dad never forgot about Moren and

I. He would come over and pick us up on Saturday and take us out to the ranch. I

learned about America sitting in the right front seat of a station wagon. on any given Saturday morning listening to

him sing the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, all those all those songs tell me about America and

the greatness of it where I learned about it. I learned about the tax system in America. in that same right front

seat. And Sunday he come pick Marine and I up and take us over to grandma’s his

his mom and his mom was a Sunday school teacher and we go over there and we go

to Sunday school and come back and have lunch in her backyard with a big tortoise. So I mean they did the best

they could as parents being in the acting business and you’re on location.

So that’s why so many of us went to boarding school because the parents weren’t going to be home anyway.

Did you But that was that was because of both of their careers. And but you had

you said you lost your sister. You want It was Moren. Yeah. I lost Moren at 60 years old, you

know, 200, you know, and what 21. Yeah. Or not 20 I’m sorry, 2001.

No, no, I I I knew that. So remaining are three others uh half half or step

siblings Ron Prescott and is it Priscilla?

Patty Patty forgive me. And are they in California now too?

Patty is I think Ron goes between Italy and Washington state. His wife has a

place in Italy. So they go back and forth if you will. his wife died, first wife died quite a few years ago and he

got remarried and and what have you. But Patty lives here in California. Yes.

Well, long before that time when you were growing up, I heard a story. I don’t know if you want to talk about it,

but tell me about Marilyn Monroe knocking at your door.

Well, no, it’s as I said, I go out and speak a lot and you know, when I speak

to Christian group, one question always comes up. When did you know there was a God?

I said, “That’s the easiest of all.” I said, “My sister and I were going to buy a gift for our mother for her 40th

birthday, rode our bikes into Beverly Hills, and there was this beautiful silver serving tray and inlaid on it

with this beautiful blond-haired woman, looked like red satin over the top of her.” I said to Moren, I said, “M, let’s

get this for mom.” She’d say, “We can’t get that for mom.” I said, “But it’s really pretty. Might be pretty. you

can’t take that to mom for her birthday. So we found something else and took it

on home and that night I was in charge of the front door for people coming in to open the front door tell people where

to go in the house for the party and the doorbell rang and I said open the door and I was looking at the layout on that

silver tray Marilyn Monroe and I tell the I tell the Christian group I’m talking to that’s when I knew there was

a God. And and let me tell you, every time I tell that story to a Christian group,

100% of the men go, “Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby.” And their and their wives look at

him like, “What are you doing?” Yeah. What are you talking about? I can see it

now. That’s funny. So, one of the stories I also heard

about that you may want to share is that your dad always carried around with him index cards. What was that about? Well,

he didn’t always carry those around. He just that’s where he wrote his speeches, his notes and notes. If you come out to

the Reagan library, there’s a whole area there where you see his index cards

where he in fact wrote his speeches, kept in his left pocket of his suit and

when he was going to give a speech, he pulled them out. That was it. And he wrote his own speeches. He, you know, he

was one of these people who, if you looked at his library, he actually read all the books in his library. They

weren’t there for show. He actually read them and reread them. He had like a his memory was unbelievable as you could

tell just by listening to him and what have you. So those were his speech cards when he’d go out and give a speech and

he had them, you know, with rubber bands around him. So depending on what speech he was going to give, he’d go in the lower right hand drawer of his desk at

home and pull out whatever stack it was he was going to give that speech, put it in his pocket, off he’d go to give a

speech. So that those were the index cards. But Nuke Gingrich tells a great story. He introduced him one night at an

event and stepped away and dad, you know, stepped up to the microphone. He

reached in his pocket, pulled out the cards and they fell on the floor

and N said, “Oh my god.” He says, “And

my dad just reached down and just shuffed them back together, you know, and started his speech, which

from wherever the one was on top. So it it didn’t matter which one ended up on

top. He knew the speech anyway. So he knew the speech. What’s this story about Gaddafi? You

mentioned boarding school earlier and there was this that’s boarding school to Gaddafi. Yeah,

I know. There was something from an Kaddafi that you that when you were in school.

No, no, no. That’s way out of school. This is like 1980s. This is like 1980s.

1980s. Dad, he sends planes into, you know, in there and they take out two of

his homes. and Gaddafi comes out and gives a speech the next day or press conference and said in taking out the

homes in TripleA they killed his adopted daughter which was not true

but that was the announcement. He understood that Ronald Reagan had adopted child also and maybe he should

return the favor. So I had Secret Service basically in bed with me for about six months making sure

I was okay. I tried to convince Gaddafi it was my brother Ron that was adopted but that didn’t work.

Oh, there’s an inside joke there somewhere. I Well, I’m the adopted one, but if I could say, you know, look at him, not

me. But no, so he threatened my life and very worrisome for my wife and my family

to have somebody of that nature threaten your life. Sure.

That’s why you have Secret Service, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. The going I know you never

stayed in the White House. You were young. You were rather young when your dad became the 40th president of the

United States. I was I was 35. Oh, 35. I’m confusing it with your siblings.

Yeah, I was 3 35 years old. So, I stayed at the White House and stayed in the Queen’s bedroom. I stayed there. Oh,

yeah. We Yeah, we stayed We stayed at the White House. Nice place. Good food.

No, I I think I was confusing it with your two your son and your daughter. They must have been very young at age

when you first when your dad was first elected. Well, well, Cameron was three.

Yes. When dad was elected the first time. And Ashley wasn’t born till 1984.

Mhm. And so Cameron was at the first and second inaugural.

And Ashley was at the second inaugural because she was born in 1984. In fact, when dad flipped the coin for the Super

Bowl that year, he had Ashley over his shoulder. So Ashley was over his

shoulder asleep while dad was flipping coins on the who was going to get the kickoff in the Super Bowl. So that was

kind of cool. We had big Super Bowl party at the White House that year because inauguration day and swearing in

day, which was January 20th, was also the day for the Super Bowl. And so it

kind of worked out kind of cool. Boy, I remember the the fact that there

were so many different incidences I wanted to talk about. One of the ones that has me most surprised in terms of

the Reagan history is that you were in fact the keeper of the legacy. As time

went on, it was clear that you were the one espousing and protecting the Ronald Reagan legacy. And there’s so many parts

of it I want to I want to sh get into with you right now. But one of them that really was impressive to me and showed

leadership was when uh Ronald Reagan was in Recuik and he stepped away from the

negotiations with Gorbachev. You want to delve into that? I think this is new ground for our Gen X Y and Z folks.

There’s this is very interesting about a true leader. You want to describe what your dad did in Recuic?

Well, it this is the problem with America today, the world today. People

people talk about it’s not your fault. You know about that incident. But every incident had a beginning.

Yeah. And nobody wants nobody goes back to the beginning anymore and say, “How did we get there?” If we ever went back to the

beginning, we could solve all the problems we have. But we don’t because most people today think the history of the country started when they woke up

this morning. And that’s just not true. But Reovic, which I will be there this

gosh, this June and July, I’ll actually be in Reavic. I actually be, you know, at the house that they were at,

Gorbachoff and and and my dad and what have you. But you have to go back to 1976 when dad lost the nomination of the

Republican party. And we went back to the hotel, all of us. Didn’t know if the president was

going to ask my dad to be the VP or not. Not sure. had a room full of people. But somehow I ended up alone with my dad

near a fireplace in August in Kansas City.

Last place you want to be in Kansas City is near a fireplace. They thought it’d be like ambiance, right? You’re going

really hot. And I said to my dad, why do you even want to run for president?

He says, ‘You know, Michael, for so long, I’ve watched American presidents sit down with secretary generals of the

Soviet Union. And every time we sit down with them, they always ask us to give up something to get along with them.

He says, “I was running hopefully to win the nomination and then win the presidency so I could be the first

president to sit down as the secretary general of the Soviet Union.” and Michael, I was going to let them pick

the table, the chairs, and the place because, you know, that’s what how they do do things at that level. And while

the secretary general was telling me, the American president, what it was, I was going to have to give up to get

along with him, I was going to get up from my chair, walk around the other side of the table, lean over and whisper

in his ear, “Net.” I want to be the first president say to a secretary general of the Soviet Union. Now, this

is 1976. And Nancy had not yet told dad, you’re going to run again in 1980.

So he wasn’t aware 1980 was going to come around. He’s going to run. But if you go almost 10 years to the date,

because that was August of 76, and you now go to October, November of 1986,

my dad’s called Rekovic. He’s called there why? To sign a treaty. He gets

there and he proposed. And guess Mau Gorbachov says, “I’ll only sign the

treaty if you give up STI or Star Wars.” I was the only guy on the planet that

knew what the answer was going to be because he told me the answer in 1976

yet. And so when you look at the picture of him walking away with that stern

face, he said, “No.” However, a year later in Washington DC, Kyle Gorbachoff showed

up and signed that agreement. It wasn’t yet then.

And what’s happening right now at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, you go there today through March or not

through March, I’m sorry, through September, they have the Star Wars SDI exhibit going on.

Folks, we’re talking with Michael Reagan, the first of four children of Ronald Reagan. And Jane Wyman was his

mom, a famous actress, award-winning actress. Uh, Michael is recanting a lot of the experiences of his dad, our 40th

president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. He was dad to you, but he had a

he had his mind. He had a mindset of his own. Uh he was head of the Screen Actors

Guild of which I’m a member and he was also probably someone who had interesting conversation around the

dining room table. I What were the dining room conversations like at Thanksgiving?

We really try to stay away from politics because Patty and Ron, you know, didn’t vote for their father. Patty led a march

on Washington against her father when he was president of the United States. So we really, you know, didn’t get into

politics somewhat. We did get into politics, but we just I say this and I’m

going to say it again next week in in in Pennsylvania and I tell it to a lot of Republicans because all this infighting

going on today. He had two children. Neither one of them voted for him. And and it’s interesting because Moren and I

the night before an election would always flip a coin to see whose vote we were going to cancel.

I was going to, you know, you cancel patties, you cancel ry, we’ll flip a coin, heads or tails. But the fact of

the matter, no, even though they disagree with my father politically and voted, didn’t vote for him or voted

against him or let him march on Washington against Thanksgiving, they were there. Dad never

chased him away from the table, which is what’s happening today. We’re chasing people away from the table we disagree

with. And then we figure out what’s going on. What’s wrong with us? What’s wrong with this is you keep on talking

about Ronald Reagan, but you’ll learn nothing from Ronald Reagan. So Thanksgiving was great to have the

family there and talk and be together, get the family photo, if you will, for the White House and send it send it

across America. But it really stayed away from politics that much. More about

the ranch. You go into the ranch house, you don’t see famous pictures of anything but horses. That’s it. Horses.

No people, horses. And Nancy found out a long time ago if she would have made my

dad make a choice between her or the ranch, she may never have married my dad. That

ranch was all important to my dad. You know, it’s so interesting because

that is the story that everybody loves. That’s the image that everybody loves.

One of the key things that I think sticks with us today has transcended

even to the into the Trump administration is this this legacy of

liberty and freedom. You manage it in a foundation that perpetuates those

principles. But it’s even interesting to see how the press today may try to

distinguish Trump from Reagan even though re Trump himself would not deny

the importance of the Reagan legacy. Your comment on that?

They’re two different people two different times. Yeah. You’re talking about the 1960s7s and 80s. You’re now in social media

world is where you’re at today. But would you say the principles are the same? I think the principles in many

ways many ways are the same but I think it’s a hard more of a hardcore belief

with my father where I think you have you have Trump more plays the

political game. What’s you know where do I need to go to get this done?

I I think that Trump Trump becomes his own worst enemy in so

many ways. Yeah. You get Trump overload, if you will. You’re on the news every day.

Every day you get tired type thing. It’s like today I was telling someone I said with what’s going on in the world today,

Trump should be 50 points up on everybody, but he’s tied or three points up or four points up or what have you.

And people to win, you’ve got to have people who

believe in you. I run into more people who will tell me that they disagree with my

father politically, but they voted for him because they trusted him and they liked him. You

don’t find that on the Trump side. You really don’t find that with Trump. You either hate him or you love him.

And that’s a that’s a problem for Trump. And he’s got he’s got to deal with that

side of it. And that’s before all this stuff he’s going on now. You either love him or you hate him. A and many people

have a hard time dealing with the New York businessman, which is exactly what he is. And New York businessmen do

business in a completely different way than anybody else on the planet. And so it conjures up hate. And that’s

unfortunate that we’re in that in that arena. But he’s got to work on solving that

problem if he’s going to get independents and like-minded Democrats to come over

and vote for him in November because that’s going to make the difference. People don’t hate Biden, they hate

Trump. So, he’s going to make that make that work for him. Do you think there’s

any part of that that said that look I may not have liked Trump Trump’s

personality and it rubs me but oh my god look at the situation we’re in now with

Biden. Do you think maybe three and a half years with Biden people have have

come to realize principles come before personalities.

At the end of the day, people vote for the most likable candidate. Not the best candidate, the most

likable. Most likable. Why did Trump beat Hillary? Nobody likes Hillary.

I mean, it’s all about likability in 2020. You know, people like Biden more than

they like Trump. A lot going on at that period of time. Biden wins out of

liability. So, it’s all about likability coming up in 2024.

And, you know, I I think Trump absolutely is becoming more likable. I mean, you’re starting to feel sorry for

this guy with all that’s going on. So, that mean it’s working in his favor. Will it stay working his favor after the

nomination process in the summer? I just I just wonder, Michael, and

you’re better suited to answer this. You can’t make this up. The difference on

one level between your father and Biden is I remember the speech that brought a

tear to my eyes. Well, it was actually a letter that he had written to the nation talking about his confirmed concern with

his own personal failing cognition. He did it in the most leadership

classy way that I can imagine. I said to myself, even at a younger age, what

other leader had the balls to do that or would do that? And here it sits against

a backdrop of our current leader who not only is not acknowledging it but orch is

orchestrating a regime behind the scenes to give him

the license to hide away in his basement because and to stage court cases against

Trump during the time necessary for people to see a debate between Trump and

Biden is not likely to happen. Not because Biden’s willing to do it and or

one of them is not willing to do it. It’s because they’re staging court cases against Trump that run up against all

this ear early voting schedules that vary from stateto state. My concern is

we may not see a debate between Trump and Biden, not because um Biden’s not

willing to debate, but because Biden has orchestrated selective prosecution

charges through corrupted DAs and prosecutors to keep Trump busy in court.

And hey guys, what do you want from me? Mr. Trump’s a little

misnomer. You’re saying Biden’s doing this. Do you really believe Biden’s doing this? People behind Biden is this.

That’s correct. Like Obama doing this. I’m glad you said that. That’s That’s So let’s define the deep state. Who’s

behind Biden? Well, but the other side of the coin is look at the media. Where’s the media on

this? Okay, where’s where where’s the media? Media not to be filed. And

silent and there’s absolute silence from the media. uh questioning Biden or any

of these things. It’s hopefully people are starting to really see it and understand it, especially with what’s

going on today in the world that we live in on the college campuses and and every place else. Two wars, college campuses

on fire and what have you. Hopefully, it’s to a point the media is having to cover those things now.

Well, it’s gone a step a step too far. Even in today’s news, I’m watching New

York City police finally step up and uh address the Columbia University issue. I

hope they can’t be asked. They can’t go in unless they’re at they couldn’t go in until they were asked by the university.

But if that is a leadership issue at the university issue I’d like to ask you about. But isn’t it true that private

institutions when there’s public or civil unrest whether they are whether the they ask

government to step in and help them or not? They weren’t shy about asking government for funding. But if they’re

going to now ask for government’s help with these police, why would they why would government have

to wait for that? Why? If there’s civil unrest, reported actual civil unrest,

vandalism or assault of one type or another, intimidation, if it were if it were white supremacists

calling for death to America and death to blacks, the National Guard would have been there within 24 hours and this

would be over. So why what’s the difference? Why has it

The difference? The difference is the difference is all those people rioting

are youthful voters and they think they can bring them on board to vote for them in November. So that’s why they won’t

take a stand. They’re standing in the middle getting run over by everybody. You have a president’s actually in hiding. But out here in California, have

you seen our governor out anywhere? We have UCLA and SC on fire and our governor is AWOL absent without leave

like with all the Democrats out there because that’s their constituents. Those are their people and so they’re really

having trouble how to deal with their people who have now turned on them. Yes. Well, 40 years ago, your dad said,

and I’m quoting, “I’m sick and tired of the argument argument about whether if

there is some sort some effort to enforce law and order is going to

escalate anything at all. The plain truth is of the matter is that it has to

stop and it has to stop like the day before yesterday.” He was talking about

uprisings in the universities and the liberal professors he was engaged with

were trying to shoot him down as if to say you’re you’re part of the problem, Ronald Reagan. You’re not the solution.

Well, I think I think he nailed it in the bud and proved them wrong. You know, the end of the story, end of that story,

that night or one of those nights when all that was going on, somebody threw a

Molotov cocktail through the window downstairs in their home up in Sacramento. Scared the hell out of Nancy

and dad. And so they went, you know, went to the stairs and dad’s going down the stairs. Nancy’s at the top of the

stairs and say, “What are you doing?” And dad goes down the stairs. He gets to the bottom stairs. He starts to chuckle

and he says, “Only in California.” And they answered, “What are you talking about?” Well, the Molotov cocktail they

threw the window through the window was in a champagne bottle.

I I wanted But that was that was the magic. That was the magic of my father compared to

Donald Trump. Dad dealt with things with humor. He found humor in everything. A

wink and a nod, little bit of humor. He reached across the aisle. He got things done. You know, the largest tax break in

American history came with my dad and Tip O’Neal working together. That would not happen today in America. Wouldn’t

happen. But how did it happen? It happened because my dad invited Tip O’Neal and his wife to the White House

for dinner. The next day, Tip O’Neal would go back to his staff and said, “I’m going to take the bill to the floor.”

And and you know what they said? What did he promise you?

He promised me nothing. What did you talk about? The president talked about the greatness of America, the goodness

of her people, and how we working together can make it better for all. Before I knew it, I’m telling Irish

stories with the president. We’re drinking a glass of wine, and today I’m telling you, I’m going to take that bill to the floor, and I know they’ll pass.

Tip O’Neal, Tip O’Neal, a staunch Democrat from Massachusetts, sitting with Ronald

Reagan. That’s that’s wonderful. We don’t have those giants anymore. We don’t have the Hubert Humphre, the Tip

O’Neal. We don’t have any giants anymore. There’s no statesmen out there. Name a statesman that we have. Where are

they? There’s nobody out there to stop. The stuff that’s going on now is happening because we have no leadership anywhere.

There’s no states. What’s your what’s your take on on on some of the states of Robert F. Kennedy

Jr., for example? Does he help or hurt Trump? Does he help or hurt Biden?

Who knows? But I do know that my dad became president of the United States because of Robert Kennedy,

not Nancy. It was Robert Kennedy made him president of the United States. Made him governor first.

Because my dad was doing a television show called General Electric Theater back in the 19 late 50s, early 60s.

And sure enough, Robert Kennedy called the president of uh General Electric and

said, “You know that guy that’s working for a television show you have, Ronald Reagan?” Yeah. He’s running around the

country to GE plant speaking ill of my brother, the president, and the issues and the issues my brother brings up. And

I understand your government contracts are coming up for renewal. And it would go a long ways towards getting your

government contracts reduced if you could find a way to get rid of that that guy going around the country to your G

plants. Within 48 hours, General Electric Theater is canled. Ronald

Reagan’s out of a job. He was a Democrat, by the way, at that point. My

sister Marine brow beat her father. She was a Republican. My dad changed

registration. Remember he said the party left me? The party left him without a job. That’s

what they they did. So now he’s jobless, a little upset, changes registration of

Democrat to Republican, and he now has time to write a brand new speech. He ends up writing a brand new speech. You

know what the speech is? A time for choosing ger Barry Goldwater in November

of 1964. Wow. Launches his career into the governorship and ultimately into the

presidency of the United States. Robert Kay doesn’t make that call. Dad doing a genie theater.

How do I know that story? My sister Moren, myself, Nancy sitting at a dining

room table with my dad and dad’s explaining how he’s not going to be on TV Sunday night because show had been

cancelled and why. Wow. Wow. Talk to me about the

You might say my father was the first one canled by the left. Yeah, he was canled by the left. you

could that certainly helped him in this case.

Well, uh this is one of the interesting stories. There’s not too many people who also who or who may have forgotten like

you said earlier. It wasn’t in the news today or this morning and so their history is zero. But it is true Ronald

Reagan was a Democrat before he became a Republican. And that transition was very

disruptive, not only as you described just now in his personal life, but it certainly impacted the Democrat and

Republican party in California. Well, also interesting go back to say you’re a member of SAG. You know, my dad

was president of SAG nine times. Uh, you know, SAG and the Writers Guild

and Screen Actors Guild all went on strike this year. You know, the last time they were on strike was 1960. You

know who let him on strike in 1960? Ronald Reagan. Wow. You know, you know why you get

residuals? Ronald Reagan. And when he put that into

place when he was president of Screen Actors Guild, he wrote himself out of it

because he didn’t want people to think he only put it into place so when his career was on the Wayne, he would find a

way to make money. So, he’s the only guy on the planet never got residuals

from his work. Damn it. That’s that that

yeah it affects it affects others right now. It’s affecting others. I I saw your

letter from that you had written at the Reagan Legacy Foundation website and

I’ll come back to the quote that you post at the banner at the header at the top from your dad. But talk about the

the Reagan Legacy website. Well, let me tell you about first of all, my sister

was dying of melanoma and back in 2001 and we were she was at

St. John’s about three months before she would pass and she chased everybody out of the room. I started to leave. She

said, “Not you.” But I closed the door and locked it. And we had that brother sister talk and she said, “You know,

Michael, I’m not going to be around much longer.” And our father has a wonderful legacy.

And will you promise me that you get to a point in your life you can give up radio?

You’ll give up radio to carry on the legacy of our father because it needs to be the story needs to be told. And I

promised my sister literally on her deathbed that I would do that. 2009 was that time where I could go out and speak

and go around the country and speak which I did do and we started the Legacy Foundation. We started originally uh

providing scholarships to the men and women who serve aboard the USS Ronald Reagan. We still do. We also provide

scholarships to their family members who are at home trying to better their education. Nobody else does that.

Government helps the kids on the ship. They don’t help the family members at home. So we do that and then we start a

program a few years ago at Normandy, France, St. Mary Gleas, first town freed

by America on D-Day morning, 4:00 a.m. in the morning and we started a brick project. People go online, order a brick

and we in install it there at St. Mary Normandy, France with the name someone who bought the second world war European

theater and we’ve been doing that. It’s been on hold now for god almost a year

because they’re re they’re redoing the whole area uh because we’re getting ready for the 80th anniversary of D-Day

coming up on June 6th and it’s also the 40th anniversary of my dad speaking on

D-Day at point to hawk. My dad being the first president to ever speak at

Normandy on D-Day. And every president since then has in fact spoken on D-Day

at Normandy, France, which is phenomenal. Been I go there all the time and it’s it’s breathtaking to go there

and just see what these kids did at 17, 18, 19 years old and and what have you.

But so we work with them quite a bit. And part of the Reagan Legacy Foundation is on display at the Reagan Library, is

it not? No. The Reagan No. Reagan Library. Reagan, excuse me, Reagan Library, Reagan Legacy

Foundation. It’s completely separate. Completely separate. But it’s Yeah, we have we have a Reagan exhibit

at St. Mary Glaze, Normandy, France. We have that. We have an exhibit that we put in at in Germany on the 20th

anniversary of the fall of the wall at at the Mau Museum or Checkpoint Charlie Museum. We put a display in there

through our foundation. So, so we’re busy. We worked with Poland to put in a

statue of my father and Pope John Paul in Denance, Poland uh to honor them for

the part they played in bringing freedom to the world. Michael Reagan is our guest today, the

son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, the oldest of four children of Ronald Reagan. And Michael has given us his

precious time to talk about the legacy and and a comparison to some of the

current events that between a Reagan administration and how some of these current event issues might have been

handled differently. But you can see a lot more of this legacy at www.reaganleacyfoundation.org.

I’m certain you’ll through that website you’ll be able to make uh contact to Michael Reagan directly or indirectly if

not on Twitter. He’s got a very popular Twitter page too, folks. So, hey, in

fact, I’m one of your followers, Michael, and I’ll be throw I’ll be throwing in my two cents when I see your

good stuff posted. There there’s so much more to talk about and I fear we’re running out of time,

your time. So, why don’t you why don’t you capsulize two or three things that

we may or may not have talked about and take us take us to a close.

June 5th will be the 20th anniversary of the passing of my father. We’re doing

big events at the Reagan Library in Semi Valley. And it brings back to memory of

the day after my father was buried. And I had breakfast with Margaret Thatcher

that morning. And when I ran into Margaret Thatcher, she said to me, “Michael, think of what we could have

accomplished had your father been elected in 1976.” Huh.

I said, “Lady Thatcher, the Berlin Wall would still be up. The Cold War would still be going on.”

And she said, “Why would you say that?” I said, “I think God chooses his people. He chooses his time.” Said, “What do you

mean?” I said, “Where were you in 1976? Where was Le Valencia? Where was Vak

Havl? Where was Helmet Cole? Where was Mau Gorbachov? And where was Pope John

Paul? None of you were in place in 1976. If my father would have been elected, he

would have been out of office January of 1985. But Kyle Gorbachoff doesn’t come into

play till 1985. But where were you in 1980?

You were in place. John Paul was in place. like Valencia Vakohavo, all of

you were in place. All you needed was a leader to bring you together or a common

goal and the common goal was bringing freedom to the world. God chooses his

time and his people. And she looked at me, she said, “I’ve never thought of that.” I said, “It’s something I thought

about a whole lot.” Thank God you all found that leader. And that’s what the

world needs today. They need that leader to bring the world together and the world is waiting and unfortunately

we’re twiddling our thumbs. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the

timing couldn’t have been better for a transatlantic relationship that was

codified between the two of them. And you are correct. Timing is everything.

It’s godly. You know, we all have different experiences in our lives at

different times. And I look today at what’s on the news and what’s being um

brought forward. And whether it’s Trump, Reagan, Biden, you pick the pick the

poison. The fact of the matter is we are all learning things at different times. I’m

just sad that I don’t see the current generation of educators and students

learning from these lessons, some of which you’ve just pre presented today

and that history I will tell you. Go ahead. I was I was just going to say and it’s

regrettable that history has to repeat itself. Go ahead. I will I will tell you this. I do a lot

of work with Young Americas Foundation who bought my father’s ranch in 1998 who kept it pristine. It is exactly the way

dad left it because he didn’t know he wasn’t going back. They used it as a fundraising tool to raise money to

promote conservatives on college campuses and high school campuses now middle schools. They just took over the

the home in Dixon, Illinois, Tampa, Illinois. My daughter Ashley’s on that board of directors, the Young Americans

Foundation. I’ll be speaking there June 16th to 200 high school students.

They’re trying to they’re trying to make that happen. And by teaching young children about Ronald Reagan, having to

go up to the ranch and walk in the steps of my father. He called the ranch his cathedral in the sky and it truly truly

was. And these young kids get to go visit it every year when we have the meetings at the Young Americans

Foundation at the Ranch Center in Santa Barbage. So, I would suggest people want to find out more about that, go to

yaf.org. They can go there and learn about yaf.org and what they’re doing to keep

the legacy of my father moving forward and how they may want to take one of their kids and get them enrolled to come

on one of the meetings that they have. They’re in Santa Barbara or Washington DC or in Illinois and maybe even visit

the ranch and walk in the footsteps of my father. Yaf.org. Yap. Spell it.

Yap. yaf.org. Oh, one. Okay. Yaff.org.

Um, folks, we’ve been talking today with Michael Reagan, son of uh Ronald Reagan,

our 40th president of the United States. Michael, I can’t thank you enough. I hope we can do an update sometime in the

future. Uh, boy, it’d be nice to just say, “Hey, remember that last episode we did? Where

are we since then?” And just give that that would be a lot of fun. I’d

like to close with something, ladies and gentlemen. It’s it’s on Michael’s

website, www.reaganleacyfoundation.org. Check that out, too. There’s a place in

that organization for you. And here’s what a very famous and important person

left us with. He left Michael with the thought that whatever else history may

say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appeared to your best

hopes, not your worst fears, to your confidence rather than your doubts. My

dream is that you will travel the road ahead with Liberty’s lamp guiding your

steps and opportunities arm steadying your way.

Should I be so lucky to have had a father like that with that guidance? Michael, where is that guy?

Where is that guy? That guy is Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. And I’m so glad you captured

that as Ronald Reagan’s quote. He’s had a quite a few quotes, but that one shows

leadership, vision, inspiration, opportunity,

and freedom. Thank you, Michael Reagan, for being with me today. Thank you. God bless.

And thank all of you for joining us on another episode of Gene Valentino’s

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