But in the four years of Bush senior and of Carter and the eight years of Clinton -- as well as the two terms of the man who left the world stage Tuesday, George Walker Bush -- each found their success often overwhelmed by challenges and failure.
All the same, it is the immensity of the task, not the obscurity of the man, that should make the world nervous.
He and the man have a conversation about the state of the world while the man eats his sandwich (roast beef, same as always) and drinks his coffee (black, same as always).
But here's the good news -- according to the man who leads one of the world's most innovative companies, you are about to be entering the business arena at perhaps the best moment for half a century.
There was a picture of a man on the back of the world -- on the back of the map -- on the back of the world.
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The Spaniard claimed his eighth straight title at the tournament, ending a run of seven defeats in finals to the man who replaced him at the top of the world rankings, including January's record-breaking six-hour epic at the Australian Open.
It did not happen at the World Bank either: Washington leaned on the members of the developed world to back their man Jim Yong Kim, the former president of Dartmouth College.
He had previously won a gold medal in football for the Isle of Man at the World Summer Games in Athens.
This is only the latest challenge for the man described in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".
Vanderbilt, the richest man in the world, on the evening of May 5.
And in 2004 he won the rare double of the Golden Boot, awarded to the world's leading player, and Man of Steel, which is awarded to the best player in the British Super League.
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It took weeks, Mikkelson said, for a European tourist to come forward as the creator of doctored photos of a man on a balcony of one of the World Trade Center towers with a plane bearing down.
When the race got underway, Carter blasted away and took a couple of metres out of Gay but the fastest man in the world this year kept his form to power away in the second half of the race.
The reform may challenge the empire of the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, whose America Movil company controls two-thirds of the phone market.
Warne has said he is considering his future in the game despite leading Australia to the World Cup title with man of the match awards in the semifinal and final.
So, that's the story of the man who conquered the world's hottest curry.
Rockefeller became the richest man in the world for constantly reducing the price of kerosene, and later oil.
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Manuel Uribe, a former mechanic, entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest man when he weighed 560kg - the weight of a small truck.
Microgaming Software Systems, based in the Isle of Man, created the world's first online casino 20 years ago.
The diamond was once owned by the Nizam of Hyderabad, who was proclaimed the richest man in the world by Time magazine in 1937.
Many people will also be ready to believe that Osama bin Laden, the hitherto obscure Saudi dissident now elevated to the status of the world's most dangerous man, is connected with the camps, and that he played a part in the two embassy bombings.
Tourists from all over the world, many of whom seem to romanticise the life of a man who made his way to No 7 on the Forbes world's richest list, come to ask Roberto about the "true" story regarding his brother, who lived from 1949 to 1993.
As the story goes, Wonder Woman was an Amazonian princess who left her home on Paradise Island to fight the "Axis powers" in the world of man.
Mr Ozawa was the epitome of the modern ideas-man, who understood that the world had changed with the end of the cold war, and that a cringing Japan should change with it.
Cobain was the man who told the world - repeatedly - of his inner anguish.
One industry wag jokes that Durheimer reminds him of the Most Interesting Man in the World character in the Dos Equis beer ads.
He believes as many as 80% of injuries are preventable, arguing that fatigue due to overtraining is the cause, pointing out that 14 of the 23-man 2010 Dutch World Cup have already been injured this season.
The narrator sings about a man who slowly takes control of the world "with a face of an angel and the heart of a beast, " and as the man's promises lead to ruin, Norman's voice becomes increasingly defeated.
She only became the world's oldest person last week, after the death of a 115-year-old man in Puerto Rico, the Guinness Book of World Records said.
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