Editing Michael Reagan (section)

==Early life==
Michael Edward Reagan was born John Charles Flaugher at [[Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center]] in Los Angeles to Essie Irene Flaugher<ref name="autobiog">{{cite book |last1=Reagan |first1=Michael |last2=Denney |first2=James D. |last3=Denney |first3=Jim |title=Twice Adopted |date=2004 |publisher=B&H Publishing Group |location=Nashville, Tennessee |isbn=978-0-8054-3144-5 |pages=1–4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aeiyo_KOKIcC&pg=PA4 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999 |website=[[FamilySearch]] |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHP-4JHN |access-date=2024-02-23}}</ref> (October 18, 1916<ref>{{cite web|website=familytreemaker.genealogy.com|url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/e/f/Ann-Mefford/ODT1-0005.html|title=Genealogy of Campbell Rice|access-date=July 4, 2009}}</ref> – December 26, 1985),<ref>{{cite web|author=Dougherty, Margot|author2=Armstrong, Lois|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098541,00.html|title=Binding Up the Wounds|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=February 29, 2016}}</ref> an unmarried woman from [[Kentucky]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kydgi.ky.gov:2005/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FORP&CISOPTR=614&REC=2 |title=Irene Flaugher, mother of Michael Reagan |access-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928000520/http://kydgi.ky.gov:2005/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FORP&CISOPTR=614&REC=2 |archive-date=September 28, 2009 |publisher= Kentucky Historical Society|date = April 9, 2006}}</ref> who became pregnant through a relationship with John Bourgholtzer (1918–1993), a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] corporal. He was adopted by [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[Jane Wyman]] shortly after his birth.<ref name=TwiceAdopted/>

He was expelled from [[Loyola High School (Los Angeles)|Loyola High School]] after a short period at the school<ref name=TwiceAdopted>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Reagan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aeiyo_KOKIcC&q=michael+reagan+at+loyola+high+school&pg=PA168|title=Twice Adopted: An Important Social Commentator Speaks to the Cultural Ailments Threatening America Today|publisher=B&H Books|location=Nashville, Tennessee|date=2005|isbn=0805431446|page=168}}</ref> and in 1964, he graduated from the [[Judson School]], a boarding school outside of [[Scottsdale, Arizona]].<ref name=Tribune041788>{{cite news|first=Cheryl|last=Lavin|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/04/17/family-outcast/|title=Family Outcast: A Reagan Son Sadly Remembers Years Of Neglect|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|publisher=[[Tribune Media Services]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|date=April 17, 1988|access-date=February 5, 2011}}</ref> He attended [[Arizona State University]] for less than one semester and [[Los Angeles Valley College]]<ref name=PamelaPutnamMarriage2/><ref name=Barrett/> but never graduated.

In 1965, the FBI warned Ronald Reagan that in the course of an organized crime investigation it had discovered his son Michael was associated with the son of a crime boss [[Joseph Bonanno]], which would have become a campaign issue had it been publicly known. Reagan thanked the FBI and said he would tell his son to discreetly discontinue the association.<ref>{{cite book |first=Seth|last= Rosenfield|title=Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power |publisher=[[Picador (imprint)|Picador]]|location=London, England|date=2013|isbn=978-1250033383|page=297}}</ref>