For the next hour, an history tv exclusive, our cities tour visited spokane, washington, to learn more about its unique history and literary life. Or six years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. Can watch more of our visits on cspan. Org slash citiestour. Thing about bing crosby, is legacy and memory was that he was well balanced. He was not needing for fame. Even seek it. It totally surprised him. In s often mentioned today general 20th century histories influenceshe calming on American History. He was the voice that people istened to in the 1930s on hard. When things were so that was bings role in american be sort of ind of he nextdoor neighbor, commonsensical approach to, you know, life and so forth. He modelled that. Goes back to his life neighborhood. Tomah, s born in to washington, on the west side of his state. His family f 3, moved to spokane. His dad took a position at a in spokane. Y they rented a house just a
Secretary ben carson, i want to talk about your job at hud, but your other job is dr. Ben carson. Why did you decide to pursue a career in medicine . Dr. Carson you used to hear stories about doctors, and they seem to be the most noble places people on the earth. I said, thats what i want to do. Ien i was eight years old, decided that was the path i would take. Obviously, it changed. I went from there to wanting to be a psychiatrist. But then, when i got into medical school, i said, what are you good at . I started examining my life and it realized i had a lot of eye hand coordination, the ability to think in three dimensions. I was a very careful person. That led me in that direction. I was an adult neurosurgeon. I quickly migrated toward the kids. I always had this great affinity for young people. Steve what can you tell us about the study of the brain . What did you learn . Dr. Carson the human brain is incredible. Neurons,llions of hundreds of billions of aterconnections, can proce