Daily Archives: November 5, 2012

Stevenson concedes defeat in presidential election 60 years ago this hour (1952)


Video: Nov. 5, 1952 (at 3:44)

(Wednesday, November 5, 1952, shortly after midnight CST, during the 1952 U.S. presidential campaign) — Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson conceded the race to Repubican nominee Dwight Eisenhower this morning in Springfield, Illinois, saying he felt like a little boy who stubbed his toe in the dark–but who was too old to cry and “it hurt too much to laugh.”