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[[Image:Woodrow Wilson by Thomas.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=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>