Decter, M

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Midge Decter is a Heritage trustee, an Ethics and Public Policy Center director, a member of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), a Hudson fellow, and an advisors-board member for The National Interest.

==srcwtch 2008Midge Decter is the author of the soon-to-be-published book "Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/opinion/28DOWD.html?th" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">[1]</a> The "Rumsfeld" of the title is Department of Defense Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Donald Rumsfeld</a>. Maureen Dowd's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/opinion/28DOWD.html?th" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">September 28, 2003 Op-Ed</a> "Drunk on Rummy", to the say the least, provides insight on the long-term relationship between Decter and Rumsfeld, as well as interesting notes on fellow neo-con <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_Dundes_Wolfowitz" title="Paul Dundes Wolfowitz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Paul Dundes Wolfowitz</a>.<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A"); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Former President, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philadelphia_Society" title="Philadelphia Society" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Philadelphia Society</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Midge_Decter#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Winner of the 2003 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities:National_Humanities_Medal" title="National Endowment for the Humanities: National Humanities Medal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Endowment for the Humanities: National Humanities Medal</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Midge_Decter#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></li></ul><hr style="height: 1px; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" />Posted May 22, 2004, at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://maxblumenthal.blogspot.com/2004/05/midge-decter-drunk-on-truth-serum.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">Max Blumenthal's Blogspot</a>:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"'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.'" --Decter on the Warren Olney show, 89.9, Los Angeles, 5/21/04</dd></dl><hr style="height: 1px; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" />According to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0880167.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">InfoPlease.com</a>: "Midge Decter, journalist, writer. Born: 7/25/27. Birthplace: St. Paul, Minn."Midge Rosenthal attended the University of Minnesota, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and New York University, but never graduated from college. Her first job was secretary to the editor of Commentary, the intellectual magazine published by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Jewish_Committee" title="American Jewish Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Jewish Committee</a>. She later worked as an assistant editor at Midstream magazine, managing editor at Commentary, editor at Harper's Magazine, and was an editor at Legacy Books and at Basic Books. She also served as executive director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_the_Free_World" title="Committee for the Free World" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Committee for the Free World</a>, an anticommunist organization disbanded after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. She is the author of several books, The Liberated Woman & Other Americans (1970); The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation (1972); Liberal Parents, Radical Children (1975). She is on the board of directors of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Heritage Foundation</a> and a senior fellow at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Religion_and_Public_Life&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute of Religion and Public Life (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Institute of Religion and Public Life</a>. Her second husband, (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Neoconservative" title="Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">neoconservative</a>) <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norman_Podhoretz" title="Norman Podhoretz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Norman Podhoretz</a>, is editor of Commentary. Decter has four children."<hr style="height: 1px; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" />The following comes from (and was adapted from) the March 9, 2003 Jim Lobe article <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/09/int11.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">"Family ties connect US right, Zionists"</a>:"As godfather of the [neo-con] movement, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Irving_Kristol" title="Irving Kristol" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Irving Kristol</a> played mentor to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norman_Podhoretz" title="Norman Podhoretz" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Norman Podhoretz</a>, the long-time but now-retired editor ofCommentary, the influential monthly publication of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Jewish_Committee" title="American Jewish Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Jewish Committee</a> (AJC). Originally identified with the anti-war left in the mid-1960s, Podhoretz converted to neo-conservatism late in the decade and transformed the magazine into a main source of neo-conservative writing, despite the overwhelming majority of the Jewish community itself rejecting those positions."Podhoretz and his spouse, Midge Decter, a polemical powerhouse in her own right, created a formidable political team in the 1970s as they deserted the Democratic Party, and then, as leaders of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger" title="Committee on the Present Danger" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Committee on the Present Danger</a> -- like PNAC a coalition of mainly Jewish, neo-conservatives and more traditional right-wing hawks like Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld -- helped lay the foreign-policy foundation for the rise of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ronald Reagan</a>. After Reagan's victory, Decter and Rumsfeld co-chaired the international offshoot of the committee, called" the Committee for the Free World.<hr style="height: 1px; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" /><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1985/31385a.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E");">Nomination of Midge Decter To Be a Member of the Advisory Board for Radio Broadcasting to Cuba</a>, March 13, 1985."The President today announced his intention to nominate Midge Decter to be a member of the Advisory Board for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Radio_Broadcasting_to_Cuba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Radio Broadcasting to Cuba (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Radio Broadcasting to Cuba</a> for a term of 1 year. This is a new position."She is an author and editor whose essays and reviews have, over the past two decades, appeared in a number of periodicals includingHarper's, the Atlantic, Esquire, and the Saturday Review. She has been a regular contributor to Commentary and is the author of three books."As an editor she has served in various positions, beginning with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hudson Institute</a> and CBS Legacy Books. She has been the acting managing editor of Commentary, the executive editor of Harper's, and the managing editor of the Saturday Review. Most recently she has been a senior editor at Basic Books."She was one of the founders of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coalition_for_a_Democratic_Majority" title="Coalition for a Democratic Majority" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Coalition for a Democratic Majority</a>, of which she is a past national chairman, and a cochairman of the<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Advisory_Committee_on_European_Democracy_and_Security" title="Advisory Committee on European Democracy and Security" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Advisory Committee on European Democracy and Security</a>. She is presently the executive director of the Committee for the Free World."She attended the University of Minnesota. She is married, has four children, and resides in New York City. She was born July 25, 1926, in St. Paul, MN."<hr style="height: 1px; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(170, 170, 170);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Resources and articles</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h3><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Midge_Decter#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; 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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Decter

Midge Decter (born July 25, 1927, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Paul,Minnesota" title="St. Paul, Minnesota" class="mw-redirect">St. Paul, Minnesota</a>) is an American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative" title="Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect">neoconservative</a> journalist and author of various books. With <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a>, Decter is the former co-chair of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Free_World" title="Committee for the Free World">Committee for the Free World</a> and one of the original drivers of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative" title="Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect">neoconservative</a> movement with her spouse, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz" title="Norman Podhoretz">Norman Podhoretz</a>. She is also a founder of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Women%27s_Forum" title="Independent Women's Forum">Independent Women's Forum</a>, and was founding treasurer for the Northcote Parkinson Fund, founded and chaired by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Train" title="John Train">John Train</a>.

Ms. Decter started her career in journalism as the secretary to the then-editor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_%28magazine%29" title="Commentary (magazine)">Commentary</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warshow" title="Robert Warshow">Robert Warshow</a>. She resigned during her first pregnancy.

Among other positions, she was the executive editor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s" title="Harper's" class="mw-redirect">Harper's</a> under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Morris" title="Willie Morris">Willie Morris</a>, leaving the magazine in 1971. Her first job in publishing came as an editor at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Books" title="Basic Books">Basic Books</a>. She is also a member of the board of trustees for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" title="Heritage Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Heritage Foundation</a>, an influential <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>-based public policy research institute.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Decter#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

She is one of the

signatories to Statement of Principles for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century" title="Project for the New American Century">Project for the New American Century</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Decter#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

She is the mother of the conservative syndicated columnist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podhoretz" title="John Podhoretz">John Podhoretz</a>, the youngest of her four children, and the second by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz" title="Norman Podhoretz">Norman Podhoretz</a>. She is also the mother of Rachel Decter who married <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams" title="Elliott Abrams">Elliott Abrams</a> in 1980.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Decter#cite_note-2">[3]</a>

<h2>Publications</h2>

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<li>Losing the First Battle, Winning the War</li>

<li>The Liberated Woman and Other Americans</li>

<li>Liberal Parents, Radical Children</li>

<li>The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation</li>

<li>Always Right: Selected Writings of Midge Decter</li>

<li>Rumsfeld : A Personal Portrait <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0060560916" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-06-056091-6</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Decter#cite_ref-0">^</a> <a href="http://www.heritage.org/About/Departments/trustees.cfm" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees, heritage.org</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Decter#cite_ref-1">^</a> <a href="http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm" rel="nofollow" class="external text">New American Century Statement of Principles</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_Decter#cite_ref-2">^</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41843-2003May26?language=printer" rel="nofollow" class="external text">washingtonpost.com: Back in Political Forefront</a></li>

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<a name="P7980_1576433" id="P7980_1576433"> </a> Nicaraguan Freedom Fund

Acronym/Code: NFF

Updated: 9/89

<a name="P7985_1576803" id="P7985_1576803"> </a>Categories:Political

<a name="P7987_1576823" id="P7987_1576823"> </a>Background: While no official link between the government and the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund has come to light, an article in the Village Voice reported that Natl Security Adviser Bud McFarlane received a memo from Col. Oliver North in which North suggested that "The Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, Inc. , a 501(c)3 tax exempt corporation must be established." North feared that Congress would not pass the upcoming bill on humanitarian aid to the Nicaraguan contras. North went on to write,"Several reliable American citizens must be contacted to serve on its board of directors..."(2) McFarlane noted his approval. (8) Congress rejected the contra aid package in late April. (8) And on May 8, 1985 Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Times, Arnaud de Borchgrave, announced that the Nicaraguan Freedom Foundation (NFF) had been formed by the Times to raise the $14 million for humanitarian aid to the contras that the Congress had recently rejected. (1)

<a name="P7991_1577784" id="P7991_1577784"> </a>Funding: Col. Bo Hi Pak, top deputy to the Rev. Moon of the Unification Church, and president of the News World Communications, parent company of the Washington Times, kicked off the campaign with a donation of $100,000. (1,4) It was reported that Jeane Kirkpatrick pledged $20,000 in lecture fees and Clare Booth Luce pledged $1,000. (1) Jeane Kirkpatrick reportedly also donated a $2,500 fee she received from Ralston Purina Co for a photograph of her pet Siamese cat, Arthur. (5)

<a name="P7994_1578265" id="P7994_1578265"> </a>Activities: The Nicaraguan Freedom Fund had a very showy, but short existence. It opened its doors on May 8, 1985, and according to an interview with Midge Decter reported in the Village Voice, disappeared from the political scene--perhaps as soon as 10 days after it began. (2) NFF was legally dissolved on September 9, 1985. (7) The group's 1985 tax return for the fund reported donations of $165,648 to AmeriCares, an organization that delivered millions of dollars of humanitarian aid to Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador between 1982 and 1986. (7,8) AmeriCares used the conservative lay-Catholic group, the Knights of Malta to distribute the aid within the recipient countries. (8)

The other major expenditure from the reported income of $267,208 was $93,266. 80 for newspaper ads. (7) It can be presumed that the ads were similar to the one in the June 11th Los Angeles Times captioned "Central America Burns... Congress Fiddles."(10) It carries two photos of small children with the caption,"These are the victims. . They are the Contras."(10) The text talks about the "freedom fighters" and their need for the aid denied them by Congress. The ad, of course, contained a donation coupon. (10)

<a name="P7997_1579471" id="P7997_1579471"> </a>Government Connections: Clare Booth Luce was ambassador to Italy from 1953 to 1957 and representative to Congress from Connecticut from 1943 through 1947. (6)

Jeane Kirkpatrick was the U.S. delegate to the United Nations during the Reagan administration. (5) She is a member of the right-wing, secretive policy group, the Council for National Policy. (12)

William Simon was Secretary of the Treasury during the Nixon administration. (1)

<a name="P8002_1579905" id="P8002_1579905"> </a>Private Connections: Jeane Kirkpatrick was a prominent member of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and on the Committee on the Present Danger, strongly anticommunist groups that formed in the 1970s. The CDM and CPD revitalized and promoted the policy of containment militarism, an anti-Soviet policy which provided the theory behind the Cold War. (11) She is on the board of the Committee for the Free World, a group of neoconservative intellectuals who via the media undertake the defense of the noncommunist world. She was also connected with the Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (PRODEMCA), a member of the nongovernmental, neoconservative contra supply network. (19) Kirkpatrick is a resident scholar at the conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute and is or was on the "faculty" of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), another neoconservative, policy-developing think tank. (14,20) CSIS was closely tied to the Reagan administration and has been called "a parking lot for former government big shots."(20) Kirkpatrick made the keynote address and was honored with a reception at the Council for National Policy (CNP) meeting in Oct 1982. (21) The CNP is an exclusive, secretive, right-wing group that envisions itself as the policymaking body of the Right. (15)

William Simon appears to be the consistent link in the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund/AmeriCares/Knights of Malta network. He is on the board of first two and a long-time member of the Knights of Malta. (1,16,17) Simon also served on the national council of PRODEMCA. (19) He is an international business counselor at the Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS). (20) CSIS has "The William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy" which is given to scholars of free enterprise and the capitalist system. (13) He is or was also a trustee the Heritage Fdn, a policy development think tank influential in the early years of the Reagan administration. (18) Simon also has been connected with another right-wing think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, and with Accuracy in Media, a media watchdog group for the Right. (19) Simon is a member of the the Council for National Policy. (12)

Midge Decter is a another major player in the neoconservative network that came to the political forefront after Reagan's election to the Presidency. She is the founder and executive director of the stridently anticommunist Committee for the Free World. (14) Decter was a founding member of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger. (14) She was on the board of directors of the Heritage Fdn and a former senior editor at Basic Books. (14)

Clare Booth Luce is a dame in the Knights of Malta. (17)

<a name="P8008_1582672" id="P8008_1582672"> </a>Misc:<a name="P8010_1582677" id="P8010_1582677"> </a>Comments:U.S. Address:

<a name="P7983_1576487" id="P7983_1576487"> </a>Principals: William Simon, chairman; Jeane Kirkpatrick, vice pres; James M. Tully, sec/tres; Michael Novak, Midge Decter, and Charlton Heston, directors. (1,9) One source includes Clare Booth Luce on the board of directors. (3) Harold E. Eberle was the executive director and Jerris Leonard, the general counsel. (9)

<a name="P8013_1582700" id="P8013_1582700"> </a>Sources:1. Michael Isikoff,"U.S. Ex-Officials Lead 'Contra' Fund Drive," Washington Post, May 9, 1985.

Geoffrey Stokes,"Just Good Friends," Press Clips, The Village Voice, Mar 10, 1987.

Fred Clarkson,"Moon, the Contras and PBS," Extra!, Aug/Sep 1987.

Fred Clarkson,"Behind the Times: Who Pulls the Strings at Washington's #2 Daily?," Extra!, Aug/Sep 1987.

5."The Buck Starts Here," Briarpatch, Oct 1985.

Phone conversation with Albuquerque Public Library, Sep 1989.

Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, 990 Income Tax Report, 1985.

John Spicer Nichols,"U.S. Government Funding of La Prensa," paper presented to the XIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Assoc. , New Orleans, Mar 17, 1988.

Letterhead, Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, 1985.

Ad, Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1985.

Jerry Sanders, Peddlers of Crisis: The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1983).

Copy of the mailing list, Council for Natl Policy, 1984.

Programs & Activities, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1987-1988.

14."The Neocon Family Tree," Mother Jones, July/Aug 1986.

Phone interview with Sidney Blumenthal, Sep 1989.

AmeriCares brochure, undated.

Penny Lernoux,"Who Knows? Knights of Malta Know," National Catholic Reporter, May 5, 1989.

David Ivon,"International Freedom Foundation," Covert Action Information Bulletin, #31, Winter 1989.

The New Right Humanitarians (Albuquerque, NM: The Resource Center, 1986).

Alison Muscatine,"Georgetown's Media Profs," Washington Post, May 11, 1986.

Meeting Agenda, Council for National Policy, Oct 10-11, 1982.

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