Who is Dean Rusk from The Best and the Brightest and what is their importance?

Dean Rusk was born in Georgia and was raised as a Calvinist. He was active in ROTC when he attended high school at Atlanta Boys High. He worked as a clerk in a law office for two years to earn money to attend Davidson where he graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa. He received a Rhodes scholarship and went to Oxford. He also spent a semester in Germany as Hitler came to power. Returning to America in 1934, he taught political science at Mills College and married Virginia Foisie in 1937.