The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
Henry Ford II speaks to a crowd of reporters and well-wishers at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Renaissance Center on a rainy day in Detroit.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
Max Fisher speaks at the Allied Jewish Campaign fundraising event in 1958.
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.
Peter Golden offers an enlightening quote about Max Fisher from Ronald Reagan.
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Anti-Defamation League Honors
Left to Right: Thomas A. Murphy (Chairman, General Motors), Max M. Fisher, Robert E. McCabe (President, Detroit Renaissance), A. Alfred Taubman, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr.
Agreement for the Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency of Israel
Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.
Max Fisher speaking in a UJA fundraising video about the need to support Jewish people around the world.
An excerpt from The Congressional Record detailing the $50 million loan to Israel agreement.
1960 UJA Overseas Report
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.