The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Detroit's Renaissance Center Article
Max Fisher at his office in the Fisher Building.
Congratulatory letter from President Gerald Ford to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
Max Fisher with Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher and President George H. W. Bush outside the White House. Signed, "To Max - I love this shot. Your friend - George Bush"
Max Fisher "A Man of Our Times"
Letter from Max M. Fisher to President Nixon concerning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's 1969 visit.
Agreement for the Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency of Israel
Abba Eban dinner
Construction of Renaissance Center
In 1999 Max Fisher was named a Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News.
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.