Committee on Public Information

On April 13, 1917, shortly after Congress declared war on Germany, Pres. Woodrow Wilson created the Committee on Public Information (CPI) by Executive Order 2594, and appointed George Creel, the muckraking journalist, its civilian chairman. President Wilson believed that the ...

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