Not only has he succeeded John Hume, his mentor and a political giant in the landscape of Irish nationalism, but he has also taken on the redoubtable Seamus Mallon's role as deputy first minister in the power-sharing government.
While Campbell's redoubtable wife Elspeth has a taste for demotic television - she famously completed a dissertation on the matriarchs of Coronation Street -she does not seem the type to take kindly to fish and chips in her hotel bedroom.
At one point it seemed like only the redoubtable Crown Posada on The Side was keeping the notion of a quiet pint of ale alive.
The full weight of homegrown hopes lies on the redoubtable shoulders of Stephen Frears, 71, whose drama about the US government's anger at Muhammad Ali is the sole UK feature at Cannes this year, as a "special screening".
Ah, yes, the inexorable progress to equality and respect marked by the example and struggles of, among many other redoubtable figures, Austen, Eliot, Fry, Curie, Pankhurst, Davison, Stopes, Greer, Malala, and, now, Cyrus.
The New York Times has reviewed them favourably; four-star chefs have been visiting; the increasingly popular and powerful New York culinary blogosphere―including Josh Karant, an academic who runs a redoubtable blog, "The Porkchop Express"―have sung their praises far and wide.
In an 11th-hour rescue attempt, Mr Vajpayee sacked the city's chief minister and replaced him with India's redoubtable information minister, Sushma Swaraj, who began checking up on absentee police supervisors in a series of well-publicised late-night inspections.
BESET by worries about rising unemployment and the loss of housing and financial wealth, Britain's redoubtable consumers have lost their nerve, and it is hardly surprising.
"I love the city, but am ashamed of its condition," says Sandipan Chakravortty, boss of one of the few units of the giant Tata Group to be based there.Now West Bengal, the state which Kolkata dominates, has a new government, led by the redoubtable Mamata Banerjee.
These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.
The president has also said he would try to seek a settlement with the Marcos family led by his redoubtable widow, Imelda to recover money plundered from government coffers.
