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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> | ||
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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 | + | ===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> | ||
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| + | ===Other Notable Members=== | ||
| + | * [[Charles Merriam]], a professor at the [[University of Chicago]] and an adviser to president [[FDR]]. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
Revision as of 22:16, August 11, 2015
The Committee on Public Information, sometimes referred to as CPI or the Creel Committee, was a federal propaganda organization[1][2], organized by President Woodrow Wilson with executive order 2594.[3]
With executive order 3154, the CPI was terminated on August 21, 1919.
Members
The Creel Committee
The committee's members included George Creel as chairman of the CPI along with the secretaries of State (Robert Lansing), War (Newton D. Baker), and Navy (Josephus Daniels.[4]
Other Notable Members
- Charles Merriam, a professor at the University of Chicago and an adviser to president FDR.
See Also
External Links
- 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)
references
- ↑ (2011) The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 342.
- ↑ (2008) World War One. ABC-CLIO, 342.
- ↑ Executive Order 2594 - Creating Committee on Public Information (April 13, 1917).
- ↑ United States Committee on Public Information (1917). Official U. S. Bulletin, Volume 1, 4.