He initially attended The Juilliard School of Music in Manhattan, and although he continued playing the piano throughout his life, he ultimately decided on a career in medicine.
[3] In 1960, Brown became a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, eventually attaining the rank of rear admiral and assistant surgeon general.
He then became the Special Assistant to the President regarding intellectual disability, additionally serving as head of the Community Mental Health Facilities branch of the NIMH during the mid-1960s where he oversaw federal government support of deinstitutionalization.
[4] In that role, he led the replacement of large state-run psychiatric hospitals with locally based "community centers" and Brown continued to make that a priority when he became Director of the NIMH in 1970.
Even if an individual is balanced, once someone becomes president, how does one solve the conundrum of staying real and somewhat humble when one is surrounded by the most powerful office in the land, and from becoming overwhelmed by an at times pathological environment that treats you every day as an emperor?