http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/books/review/0718books-lizza.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1090166450-MQA3vHpai4kSjP8vXisayQ&pagewanted=print&position=Story about new books by these three famous Dems.
"These three icons of their party aren't just any politicians. Aside from Al Gore, they may be the three living Democrats with the best reasons to believe they should have been president. Richard Nixon's disgrace surely gives McGovern some right to think that, with hindsight, Americans understand the wiser course in 1972 would have been to elect him. In 1988, Gary Hart was the future of his party, the ideological heir to Robert Kennedy and the harbinger of Bill Clinton. He was knocked out by a sex scandal. Mario Cuomo was the giant of Democratic politics in 1992. Spooked by George H. W. Bush's post-gulf-war popularity, he declined at the last minute to join the race -- a plane was famously waiting to carry him to New Hampshire -- and forfeited his best opportunity to reach the White House.
The principal message of these books is one befitting men who harbor the conviction that they should have been president: I told you so."