We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.

Creel immediately used the office to launch several ambitious reform campaigns—such as ordering police officers to give up their clubs and nightsticks as well as a campaign to destroy the red-light district in downtown Denver while providing a tax-funded "rehabilitation farm" for women leaving prostitution. The couple had two children a son named George Jr.

He said of himself that "an open mind is not part of my inheritance. ". George Creel (December 1 1876 – October 2 1953) was an investigative journalist a politician and most famously the head of the United States Committee on Public Information a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.