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http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Secretary_of_State_who_keeps_private_0914.html

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice co-owned a home and shared a line of credit with another woman, according to Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler, who reveals the information in his new book, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy.
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According to the book, Rice owns a home together with Randy Bean, a documentary filmmaker who once worked with Bill Moyers. Kessler made the discovery by looking through real estate records.

Randy Bean
Executive Producer
Documentaries and Television Projects

Research Interests
Randy oversees the creation, production and distribution of Center content in the video format. She is an experienced producer,director and writer, having worked for public television stations and network news divisions. She was a Knight Fellow at Stanford, and has worked at the University in a variety of executive producer roles since 1996.

Randy Bean is executive producer for documentaries and special television projects at Stanford University. She serves as a consultant on media and communications for the SCL, and oversees the creation, production and distribution of Center content, in video and other formats. Bean is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and experienced broadcast journalist. She worked as a producer with Bill Moyers at WNET in New York, and covered major news stories for both ABC News and NBC News in their Washington bureaus. She came to Stanford as a Knight Professional Journalism Fellow, and moved to California to be a staff producer, director and writer of current affairs programs and investigative documentaries at KQED in San Francisco. She founded the Stanford Channel in 1995 and managed its operations until 2001. She has worked as writer and executive producer on a number of broadcast-quality Stanford productions, including Becoming Stanford: The Making of an American University, Seizing Power: The Steel Seizure Case Re-visited, The Stanford Presidency and A World of Change: The International Initiative at Stanford University. Her latest Stanford production, "What Were They Thinking?" Originalism, Music and the Constitution, will air on public television in Spring 2007. Bean attended Northwestern University and has a B.A. with special honors in political science from the George Washington University.

http://longevity2.stanford.edu/personRandy.html

http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/1982/index.html

Knight Fellowships Class of 1982

Top row: Evans Witt, Walter Robinson, Brenda Worthington, Elisabet Van Nostrand, James O'Hara, Fatima Cabanas, Dennis McDougal, Lyle Nelson, (director), Diane Lindquist, Randy Bean
Front row: Molly Noone (staff), James Files, Lydia Wasowicz, Edvin Beitiks, Bailey Thomson, Marek Samotyj, Amy Witt, Henrick Bering-Jensen, Qing Luo, Harry Press (associate director)

Rice earned her PhD in international relations at Denver in 1981, and became an assistant professor at Stanford, where the football program was flagging. She went to every home game anyway, and met her best friend in the process--Randy Bean, also a daughter of a minister who raised her to love football.

"People ask how we became friends and I always say, `God and football,’’’ said Bean, a documentary filmmaker for Stanford. "I could forgive Condi her politics because she loved football, and likewise she could forgive mine.’’

http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=12571&date=7/2/2005

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14185234

When Bush won reelection in 2004, Rice was ready to go back to California. She hadn't expected to be national security advisor in the first place. She told friends she hadn't even wanted that job because her father had been terribly ill during Bush's first campaign. Though she had been Bush's foreign policy advisor in the 2000 campaign, she wanted to return to California to be with her dad. But Bush persisted, and Rice finally said yes. Randy Bean had begun to explore installing a webcam system and other ways for Rice to keep in touch with her father when he died just four days after she was named national security advisor. "That was his gift to her," Bean said. "He freed her to go to Washington, unburdened."