In 1911, at age 27, Truman, serving as a corporal in the Missouri National Guard, penned a letter to his future wife, Bess Wallace.
“I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s honest and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman… I am strongly of the opinion that negros (sic) ought to be in Africa, yellow men in Asia and white men in Europe and America.”
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