The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher with Richard Nixon in the White House
Letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max M. Fisher, George Klein, and Richard Fox – the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Max Fisher meeting with Richard Nixon and other leaders, including John Ehrlichman, William Rogers, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, and William Wxler, in the White House in 1970.
Max Fisher at his office in the Fisher Building.
Abba Eban dinner
The Riverfront development in Detroit, part of the city's Renaissance led by Fisher and Taubman
1994 National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony program showing Peter Golden and Mary Fisher as guest speakers.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Honorary Doctorate
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Letters congratulating Max Fisher on his 1971 "What Can We Do for Detroit?" speech.
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Detroit Councilman Kenneth Cockrel, who opposed city tax breaks for the development of Riverfront
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.