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===Political conflict=== Creel used his overseas operations as a way to gain favor with congressmen who controlled the CPI's funding, sending friends of congressmen on brief assignments to Europe.<ref>Stone, Melville Elijah. ''Fifty Years a Journalist''. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921. p. 342-5.</ref> Some of his business arrangements drew congressional criticism as well, particularly his sale by competitive bidding of the sole right to distribute battlefield pictures.<ref>''Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, on the Proposed Revenue Act of 1918, Part II: Miscellaneous Taxes'' (Washington, DC: 1918), 967ff., [https://books.google.com/books?id=_UpOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA967& available online], accessed January 19, 2011.</ref> Despite hearings to air grievances against the CPI, the investigating committee passed its appropriation unanimously.<ref>Stephens, Oren. ''Facts to a Candid World: America's Overseas Information Program''. Stanford University Press, 1955. p. 33.</ref> Creel also used the CPI's ties to the newspaper publishing industry to trace the source of negative stories about Secretary of the Navy [[Josephus Daniels]], a former newsman and a political ally. He tracked them to [[Louis Howe]], assistant to Assistant Secretary of the Navy [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and threatened to expose him to the President.<ref>Fleming, ''The Illusion of Victory''. p. 148-149.</ref> As a Wilson partisan, Creel showed little respect for his congressional critics, and Wilson enjoyed how Creel expressed sentiments the President could not express himself.<ref>Fleming, ''The Illusion of Victory''. p. 315.</ref><ref>For Wilson's support of Creel to a group of senators, see Thomas C. Sorenson, "We Become Propagandists," in Garth S. Jowett and [[Victoria O'Donnell]] (eds.), ''Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays'' (Sage Publications, 2006), p. 88. Asked if he thought all Congressmen were loyal, Creel answered: "I do not like slumming, so I won't explore into the hearts of Congress for you." Wilson later said: "Gentlemen, when I think of the manner in which Mr. Creel has been maligned and persecuted, I think it is a very human thing for him to have said."</ref>
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