America's First Minister of Propaganda

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<p>‘As America’s campaig i te sifies, it is epressi g yet reass ri g to remember the co trast betwee campaig sloga s a gover i g policies. Depressi g, beca se we seem s rprise to iscover agai a agai that a politicia ’s promise is as reliable as a weather report— ot always off b t rarely precise. Reass ri g, beca se ma y politicia s ofte iscar campaig trail i iocies with their b tto s a b ti g.</p>
<p>Woo row Wilso ’s campaig o e ce t ry ago co firms the Gra Ca yo -wi e gap betwee campaig i g a gover i g. I 1916, Wilso promise America s peace espite E rope’s Great War with the sloga “He Kept Us O t of War.” By 1917, America e tere i to that very war. The ma Wilso t r e to, to t r America p blic opi io aro , was the lo g-forgotte George Creel, America’s first a perhaps still best, official Secretary of Propaga a.’</p>
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