The second thing, that it was hard to get an education and hard to find work. And that medical expenses were very high.
Mr. Rankin. Did he say who he blamed for this?
Mrs. Oswald. He didn't blame anyone.
Mr. Rankin. Did he ever say anything about President Kennedy?
Mrs. Oswald. No. At least—I was always interested in President Kennedy and had asked him many times to translate articles in a newspaper or magazine for me, and he always had something good to say. He translated it, but never did comment on it. At least in Lee's behavior—from Lee's behavior I cannot conclude that he was against the President, and therefore the thing is incomprehensible to me. Perhaps he hid it from me. I don't know. He said that after 20 years he would be prime minister. I think that he had a sick imagination—at least at that time I already considered him to be not quite normal—not always, but at times. I always tried to point out to him that he was a man like any others who were around us. But he simply could not understand that.
I tried to tell him that it would be better to direct his energies to some more practical matters, and not something like that.
Mr. Rankin. Can you tell us what you observed about him that caused you to think he was different?
Mrs. Oswald. At least his imagination, his fantasy, which was quite unfounded, as to the fact that he was an outstanding man. And then the fact that he was very much interested, exceedingly so, in autobiographical works of outstanding statesmen of the United States and others.
Mr. Rankin. Was there anything else of that kind that caused you to think that he was different?
Mrs. Oswald. I think that he compared himself to these people whose autobiographies he read. That seems strange to me, because it is necessary to have an education in order to achieve success of that kind. After he became busy with his pro-Cuban activity, he received a letter from somebody in New York, some Communist—probably from New York—I am not sure from where—from some Communist leader and he was very happy, he felt that this was a great man that he had received the letter from.