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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>
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>
With executive order 3154, the CPI was terminated on August 21, 1919.
With executive order 3154, the CPI was terminated on August 21, 1919.
==Members==
==Members==
* [[Charles Merriam]], a professor at the [[University of Chicago]] and an advisor to president [[FDR]].
===The Creel Committee===
The committee's members included [[George Creel]] as chairman of the CPI along with the secretaries of [[United States Secretary of State|State]] ([[Robert Lansing]]), [[United States Secretary of War|War]] ([[Newton D. Baker]]), and [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Navy]] ([[Josephus Daniels]].<ref>{{cite book | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6UfmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA28 | title=Official U. S. Bulletin, Volume 1 | author=''United States Committee on Public Information'' | pages=4 | year=1917 }}</ref>
===Other Notable Members===
* [[Charles Merriam]], a professor at the [[University of Chicago]] and an adviser to president [[FDR]].
==See Also==
==See Also==