Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I roto i te pōtitanga peresideniraa, i hinga te Perehitini Reipa a Dwight D. Eisenhower i te Kawana o mua o te Rōpū Democrat a Adlai E. Stevenson o Illinois i roto i te tukinga anō o te pōtitanga o te tau 1952. I wikitoria a Eisenhower i te pōti whānui mā te tekau mā rima ōrau, ā, i wikitoria anō ia i ngā kawanatanga katoa i waho o te Tonga. I te huihuinga o te Rōpū Manapori
I te pōti tuatahi, ka hinga a Stevenson i te Kawana o New York a W. Averell Harriman, ka riro i a ia te tohu.