[[Image:Woodrow Wilson by ThomasNobel Prize.jpg|thumb|250px|right|President Woodrow Wilson created this propaganda mill with his pen and his phone]]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=httphttps://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.
==Beginning==
The CPI came into existence via Executive Order 2594, which was made possible by an expansion in the powers of the [[Executive Branch]] by the passage of the [[Overman Act]].
==Members==
===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=httphttps://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]].
* Vira Boarman Whitehouse, Director for Switzerland of the CPI.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8wwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80 Catalog of Copyright Entries: Books, Volume 17]</ref>
* [[Edward Bernays]], The 'Father of Public Relations'.
==See Alsoalso==
* [[Four Minute Men]]
*[[Office of War Information]]
* [[Disinformation Governance Board]]
==External Linkslinks==
* [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)
* [https://archive.org/details/ayearasagovernm00whitgoog A Year as a Government Agent], Vira Boarman Whitehouse
* [https://archive.org/details/GeorgeCreelSoundsCallToUnselfishNationalServiceToNewspaperMen ''George Creel Sounds Call to Unselfish National Service to Newspaper Men''], August 17, 1918.
* [http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=comssp Unifying America: The Use of American Propaganda During World War I], California Polytechnic State University
==References==
[[Category:World War I]]
[[Category:Propaganda]]
[[Category:Progressive Era]]