Nobody would believe me so I don't have to worry about it.
This quote is attributed to Bean:
“All of my children are good little communists.”
His father was a founding member of the ACLU.He also was once the chief of police at Harvard. Orson Bean had once been blacklisted by Hollywood for his outstpoken liberal beliefs (he attended a couple of Communist Party meetings.
http://www.answers.com/topic/orson-bean
If you read his Wikipedia entry you will see that much of the info there is almost verbatim of the above link but Wiki left out the quote about his children and the 2 Communist Party meetings. Interesting.
Now perhaps Orson saw the light in recent years. It mentions that he was a supporter of Nixon. Perhaps Andrew converted him. Orson sounded like they were close but who really knows.