Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Not enough to be charitable.
Mr. JENNER. By the way, your husband, he is a fine geologist and
petroleum engineer. He is not a man who likes to concentrate on
business, finances, is he?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Well, I would say he is pretty good with money.
I am the one--I made money too easily, so I squandered money. He
doesn't. But you see I always had a steady income. He doesn't have a
steady income. He has an assignment for 2 or 3 weeks, he has very good
money for it, and then we never know when it is going to come in.
He may have within a year two or three fantastic things--go to Ghana,
go somewhere else, and he makes quite a lot of money.
But then maybe a year that he has nothing at all coming in. So he
learned when he has something to hold onto it.
Mr. JENNER. So there were periods when his financial situation was
good, so he was high?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes. That is how we took our trip, because we
were very fortunate before our trip--he had an assignment in Ghana, and
he made some money, and I was making very good money, so we thought we
can afford it. Besides he almost lost his mind. We had to go on that
trip.
Mr. JENNER. Then there were valleys, financially, in which you were not
as affluent?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Of course.
Mr. JENNER. But you folks were at no time wealthy people?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Real wealthy, no.