After Morgan’s high profile departure from the Union Tribune earlier this year, he told the Associated Press, “What I’ve spent my life doing mostly is trying to be the moderate, if not liberal voice, on a conservative newspaper and it’s been uphill all the way.” Now UCSD scholars and students alike will have the opportunity to study that voice and assess the impact of his 54-year career with Copley Newspapers. Morgan has donated 60 boxes of his papers, notebooks, tapes and correspondence to the UCSD Library. The collection ranges from his correspondence with detective-fiction writer Raymond Chandler to a candid taped interview with Richard Nixon onboard a Western Airlines jet en route to Seattle in October, 1961. On July 31, UCSD and the San Diego Press Club held a bash saluting the long career of “Journalist Neil Morgan.” Over 400 guests paid from $45 to $65 a ticket to graze on gourmet delights prepared by ten of San Diego’s finest chefs and to celebrate the man, his 10,000 columns and nine books. And for those fans who still want to hear that voice, Morgan can be found on KPBS radio doing occasional commentaries during Friday’s All Things Considered.