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[[Image:Wilson Nobel Prize.jpg|thumb|250px|right|President Woodrow Wilson created this propaganda mill with his pen and his phone]] | [[Image:Wilson Nobel 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= | + | 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=https://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. | ||
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==Members== | ==Members== | ||
===The Creel Committee=== | ===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= | + | 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=https://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=== | ===Other Notable Members=== | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Four Minute Men]] | * [[Four Minute Men]] | ||
| + | *[[Office of War Information]] | ||
| + | * [[Disinformation Governance Board]] | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Latest revision as of 02:34, May 8, 2022
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.
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 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.
- Vira Boarman Whitehouse, Director for Switzerland of the CPI.[5]
- Edward Bernays, The 'Father of Public Relations'.
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)
- A Year as a Government Agent, Vira Boarman Whitehouse
- George Creel Sounds Call to Unselfish National Service to Newspaper Men, August 17, 1918.
- Unifying America: The Use of American Propaganda During World War I, California Polytechnic State University
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.
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Books, Volume 17