so creel was a whirlwind. he started out with an office in the in the there's a building called the army. navy state building. he went and worked in the in that building for a couple of weeks. and then eventually he got this this office and he had offices in other places in new york. they spread out all over washington dc. there was small office in chicago and then they had branches overseas, which i'll talk about in a minute. but here are some of the things they did. i want you to a sense of this. they were publishing conglomerate pamphlets news services at home and abroad. in fact, the first united states news service was by the committee on public information abroad. the ap could never do its sent its own news abroad, american news abroad. i can only it's a complicated story but they never they never they never really had american news sent abroad until after the war. they had thousands of press releases. they they found all kinds of ways to prepackaged news. and today, what we think of is press release bei