About: Project Candor

Project Candor or Operation Candor was a public relations campaign run by the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The thought behind the campaign was to inform the U.S. public of the facts as to the armaments race and the government's official analysis of those facts. The goal the government wanted to achieve from Project Candor was to have an "informed and careful public", which would also still support necessary actions of their government. The project set up a series of 6-minute nationwide Radio-TV talks that were to be held by administration officials. The talks' introduction and conclusion were to be held by the President. The planning of the campaign began in the spring of 1953.