With riots and upheaval at home and a war abroad that seemed to be a warm-up for dropping the big one, Morgan had the answers, a morning benediction, marching orders for the day. It was a mad, mad world. In his last years at KRTH, the wear and tear of life at the top began to show. An angrier Morgan emerged, one who used his greater time allowance between the songs to flaunt some reactionary political views. One of the hippest guys in radio had pulled back the curtain to reveal a harsher man behind the mike.
Many entertainers make it a point never to show much of themselves.
They transmit their essence through their art, which, because of their talent, magnifies their personality even as it distorts it. Morgan was bigger when he was more of a radio artist. Morgan needed the big show, which KRTH provided for him. Still, the strain of creating a perfectly executed music program with all the technical hassles involved while trying to keep up with the freewheeling chatterbox style of his competitors seemed to take its toll on him. But Robert W. Morgan will be remembered because people loved him.