I'm reporting on Ronald Reagan! Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, to parents named John Edward "Jack" Reagan and Nellie Wilson Reagan. His father nicknamed him “Dutch,” because he said he looked like “a big Dutchman.” During Reagan's early childhood, his family lived in several different towns, finally settling in Dixon, Illinois, in 1920, where Jack Reagan, his father, opened a shoe store. In 1928, Ronald Reagan graduated from Dixon High School. Reagan was an athlete and student body president and performed in school plays at Dixon. During his summer vacations, he worked as a lifeguard in Dixon. Reagan then enrolled at Eureka College in Illinois on an athletic scholarship, majoring in economics and sociology. While in college, he played football, ran track, captained the swim team, served as student council president, and performed in school productions. After graduating in 1932, he worked as a radio sportscaster in Iowa. He loved his work. Later, in 1937, Reagan signed a seven-year contract with the Warner Brothers film studio. Over the next thirty years, Reagan appeared in more than 50 films with Warner Brothers. Reagan's best-known role was as Notre Dame football star George Gipp in the 1940 biopic Knute Rockne. Another amazing role for Reagan was in the 1942 film Kings Row, where Reagan portrayed an accident victim who wakes up to find that his legs have been amputated. In 1940, Reagan married an actress named Jane Wyman, with Wyman they had a daughter and named her. Maureen and adopted a son and named him Michael. The couple sadly divorced in 1948. During World War II, Reagan was disqualified from combat duty because he had very poor eyesight. He later left the war... middle of paper ...... mourning and change for the White House, with designer fashions and a major redecoration of the magnificent mansion. On March 30, 1981, as President Ronald Reagan left the Washington Hilton Hotel with several of his advisors, he was quickly fired and quick-witted Secret Service agents pushed Reagan into his limousine . Once Reagan was in the limousine, aides discovered that the president had been hit by the gunfire. His future killer, John Hinckley Jr., also shot three other people, none of whom were fatally shot. Reagan was rushed to the hospital, where doctors determined that the man's bullet had shot into one of the president's lungs and barely but surely missed his heart. Reagan, still having his sense of humor, later told his wife, "Honey, I forgot to slip away." » Weeks after being shot, President Reagan was surely back at work..