The 1917 Head of the Committee on Public Information really knew how to have a good time!

>Then, probably at the request of the House, [Walter Lippmann](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Walter_Lippmann_1914.jpg) wrote [Wilson](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/President_Woodrow_Wilson_by_Harris_%26_Ewing%2C_1914-crop2.jpg) a memo on creating a public bureau on April 12, 1917, a week after America declared war. >[…] >The day after receiving the memo, Wilson issued Executive Order 2594, creating the Committee on Public Information – the CPI – and named [George Creel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/George_Creel_in_1917_%28cropped%29.jpg) its head. >Creel was passionate, intense, handsome, and wild. (Once, years after the war and well into middle age, he literally climbed onto a chandelier in a ballroom and swung from it.) ___________________________ **Source:** Barry, John M. “The Tinderbox.” *The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History*. Penguin Books, 2009. 126. Print. ___________________________ **Further Reading:** [Walter Lippmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann) [Thomas Woodrow Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson) [George Edward Creel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Creel) __________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**