| Midge Decter  AKA Midge Rosenthal
Born: 25-Jul-1927
Birthplace: St. Paul, MN
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist, Activist, Author
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Neoconservative maven
"We're not in the Middle East to bring sweetness
and light to the world. We're there to get something
we and our friends in Europe depend on. Namely, oil."
[on the Warren Olney show, Los Angeles, May 21, 2004]
Authored a hagiography of Donald Rumsfeld. Husband: Moshe Decter (activist for Soviet Jews, b. 1921, div., d. 2007, two children)
Daughter: Rachel Abrams (m. Mar-1980, to Elliott Abrams)
Daughter: Naomi Decter (conservative writer)
Husband: Norman Podhoretz (conservative writer)
Son: John Podhoretz (conservative writer)
University: University of Minnesota (no degree)
University: Jewish Theological Seminary of America
University: New York University (no degree)
President's Commission on White House Fellowships
Commentary Magazine Managing Editor
Harper's Executive Editor
Midstream Assistant Editor
The Saturday Review Managing Editor
Accuracy in Media National Advisory Board
Capital Research Center
Center for Security Policy
Coalition for a Democratic Majority National Chairman
Committee for the Free World Executive Director
Committee on the Present Danger
Foreign Policy Research Institute Board of Advisors
The Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees
Hoover Institution
Hudson Institute
Independent Women's Forum
Institute on Religion and Public Life Senior Fellow
Jamestown Foundation Advisory Board
Jewish Policy Center Board of Fellows
Nicaraguan Freedom Fund Board of Directors
Philadelphia Society Board of Trustees
Project for the New American Century
Softer Voices Board of Directors
Clare Boothe Luce Award 2012
National Humanities Medal 2003
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
The Liberated Woman and Other Americans (1971)
The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation (1972)
Liberal Parents, Radical Children (1975)
An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War (2001, memoir)
Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait (2003, biography)
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