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Committee on Public Information (view source)
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The '''Committee on Public Information''', sometimes referred to as '''CPI''' or the '''Creel Committee''', was a federal propaganda organization<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brinkley|first1=Alan|title=The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War|date=2011|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|pages=342}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Collins|first1=Ross F.|title=World War One|date=2008|publisher=ABC-CLIO|pages=342}}</ref>, organized by President [[Woodrow Wilson]] with executive order 2594.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=75409 |title=Executive Order 2594 - Creating Committee on Public Information |date=April 13, 1917 }}</ref>
[[George Creel]] was chairman of the Committee.
With executive order 3154, the CPI was terminated on August 21, 1919.
==External Links==
* [https://archive.org/details/howweadvertameri00creerich How we advertised America; the first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of the globe], George Creel, (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1920)
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[[George Creel]] was chairman of the Committee.
With executive order 3154, the CPI was terminated on August 21, 1919.
==External Links==
* [https://archive.org/details/howweadvertameri00creerich How we advertised America; the first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of the globe], George Creel, (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1920)
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