I can't forget what they instilled in me. Historians may have different answers, but these are our national heroes. Many individual categories have overwhelmingly strong leaders. Given the unlimited range of responses to open-ended questions, these all represent extraordinary levels of agreement. He Said, She Said There are differences among population groups in some of these choices.
Men tend to be somewhat more technologically oriented.
Women, meanwhile, are twice as apt as men to call John F. Kennedy the century's leading historical figure. But in every group, across age, income, education and political lines, the greatest hope for the future is for world peace. Still, a not-insubstantial 38 percent do attach special significance to the year 2000. Most of them, by a wide margin, say it's a historical rather than a religious significance. Women are half again as likely as men to say the year 2000 has a special significance.