Theodore Roosevelt During the course of the twentieth century, America has been influenced by numerous prominent individuals. The Wright Brothers pioneering flight on a dusty North Carolina field, and Charles Lindbergh’s piloting aviation to its utmost extremes during his arduous journey across the Atlantic are just two out of an endless number of examples of Americans breaking new ground and setting standards. America has produced so many outstanding individuals this century that choosing one as the most important is a difficult task, but among the countless number of heroic Americans there is one who is almost solely responsible for setting the pace for America’s race to becoming