Click my links on post # 154.
"Harry S. Truman gained a reputation for advancements in civil rights as President, but racial slurs are scattered through letters he wrote as a young man. ''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,'' the young Truman wrote in a 1911 letter to his future wife, one of 1,400 Truman letters recently opened to scholars."
Ok, so he was fairly young when he wrote those racial slurs. Good to see the context in which he made them, but it's still a bit disappointing.