But while Mr Miliband, who hopes his call for an optimistic "national mission" has echoes with President Obama's own campaign for power, gets the crucial one-on-one "face time", Nick Clegg is not getting any such meeting.
More than a decade ago at the Oval, when Nasser Hussain, as England captain, was jeered as they became recognised as the worst team around, such status seemed unattainable, little more than a pipe-dream of optimistic ECB mission statements.
The young Pedro Beato — who was attending Brooklyn's Xavier High School at the time of the 9/11 attack — was more optimistic, calling it, "Mission accomplished".
The young Pedro Beato who was attending Brooklyn's Xavier High School at the time of the 9/11 attack was more optimistic, calling it, "Mission accomplished".
Managers said that the shuttle and the seven astronauts aboard were in no immediate danger and that NASA was optimistic that the mission would continue as planned.
The President in particular stressed the "importance of having an optimistic sense of national mission".
Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian president, said at a news conference that he was "cautiously optimistic" about the monitoring mission, though he continued to press for a complete Russian withdrawal.
I want to be optimistic about Jukely's mission, because I want to support emerging artists.
Its elitist origins notwithstanding, Matthews writes, Kennedy's call moved millions of Americans to a sense of civic duty and an optimistic view of national mission, both of which seem missing in our own time.
It was one of my application essays to a graduate program in government and sheds some interesting light on the doubtfully optimistic mentality pervading the mission at the time.
