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Craig Smith, a California State University, Long Beach, communication studies professor and former presidential speechwriter, received two national awards Nov. 21.

The director of CSULBs Center for First Amendment Studies was honored at the National Communication Associations (NCA) 100th annual convention in Chicago.

Smith said he is now a third time recipient of the Robert ONeil Award for outstanding scholarship on First Amendment issues.

I wrote the award-winning paper with my centers research director professor Kevin Johnson, who was once a student of mine here, Smith said. So I am doubly proud of that award.

Smith also accepted the Gronbeck Award for his work in interpreting and addressing political communication issues. The award, Smith said, is the result of his latest book, Confessions of a Presidential Speechwriter, published last year in February by Michigan State University Press.

In his book, he describes the time spent as a speechwriter for President Gerald R. Ford and later for George H.W. Bush, Smith said. He said he recounted his history involving Freedom of Expression. According to his books overview, Smith wrote about meeting Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon and advising Gov. Ronald Reagan. His book explores his time in Washington D.C., when he founded the Freedom of Expression Foundation and became its president.

The Gronbeck Award was named after Bruce Gronbeck, who died in September at 73 years old.

Gronbeck was a communications professor at the University of Iowa and was recognized as a scholar of rhetoric and media, according to the UI website. He received several awards including the Outstanding Mentor Award from the university as well as the NCA Mentor Award. He is responsible for mentoring 65 doctorate candidates at UI.

I knew Bruce for a long time since both of us were in political communication, Smith said. Bruce published a lot of articles and books on political communication, and I think thats why the National Communication Association decided to honor him by naming this particular award after him.

Smith said he recalled a Facebook post from Gronbeck on Sept. 9.

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Platteville Journal Editor Steve Prestegard writes about his recent encounter with Madison Diocese Bishop Robert Morlino over whether he could document a speech by the bishop in a public UW-Plattevile building. Let's just say that on this Thanksgiving Day, Prestegard is thankful for the county's First Amendment.

We have plenty for which to be thankful, editorializes the La Crosse Tribune today. The paper goes on to list a number of civic deeds that have made the area a better place this past year.

Yes, reminds the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, it was during a terrible war that President Abraham Lincoln found reasons to give thanks and proclaimed the nation's first Thanksgiving Day.

Back on the political front, the Racine Journal Times editorializes that Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan is in a place, as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, to deliver tax code reform. Let's hope he gets some bipartisan support to make it happen, the paper adds.

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