What was it like when Mitt Romney called President Obama to concede the 2012 election? Remember the hour leading up to Rachel Maddow becoming the first network news anchor to make the announcement, when no one from the Romney campaign could be found?

Here’s President Obama in Chicago on his cell, talking to Mitt Romney as Romney concedes.

President Barack Obama talks on the phone with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the Presidential Suite at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 6, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, via Flickr)

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