I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's an honest man and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a white man from dust, a nigger from mud, then threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is an awful thing for me to have to say that about the only race I have any respect for is the Jews.
— Harry Truman Modern

US President, atomic bomb decision

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Letter to his wife Bess Wallace Truman

Date / Period

1911

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Controversial

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https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/document-collection/1911-letter-bess-walla…

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