MIDGE DECTER
Name: With Donald Rumsfeld
With Donald Rumsfeld, Decter is the former co-chair of the Committee for the
Free World and one of the original drivers of the neoconservative movement with
her spouse, Norman Podhoretz. She is also a founder of the Independent Women's
Forum, and was founding treasurer for the Northcote Parkinson Fund, founded and
chaired by John Train.
Ms. Decter started her career in journalism as the secretary to the then-editor
of Commentary, Robert Warshow. She resigned during her first pregnancy.
Among other positions, she was the executive editor of Harper's under Willie
Morris, leaving the magazine in 1971. Her first job in publishing came as an
editor at Basic Books.
She is one of the signatories to Statement of Principles for the Project for the
New American Century
She is the mother of the conservative syndicated columnist John Podhoretz, the
youngest of her four children, and the second by Norman Podhoretz. She is also
the mother of Rachel Decter who married Elliott Abrams in 1980.
Name: With Donald Rumsfeld
With Donald Rumsfeld, Decter is the former co-chair of the Committee for the
Free World and one of the original drivers of the neoconservative movement with
her spouse, Norman Podhoretz. She is also a founder of the Independent Women's
Forum, and was founding treasurer for the Northcote Parkinson Fund, founded and
chaired by John Train.
Ms. Decter started her career in journalism as the secretary to the then-editor
of Commentary, Robert Warshow. She resigned during her first pregnancy.
Among other positions, she was the executive editor of Harper's under Willie
Morris, leaving the magazine in 1971. Her first job in publishing came as an
editor at Basic Books.
She is one of the signatories to Statement of Principles for the Project for the
New American Century
She is the mother of the conservative syndicated columnist John Podhoretz, the
youngest of her four children, and the second by Norman Podhoretz. She is also
the mother of Rachel Decter who married Elliott Abrams in 1980.