The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Gerald Ford recalls Max Fisher's effective fundraising.
Detroit Renaissance Construction
Letter from Max M. Fisher to White House Chief of Staff John Sununu concerning U.S. policy toward Jerusalem.
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.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli President Ezer Weizman to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
The Detroit Riots of 1967
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
United Jewish Appeal V-E Day Commemorative Medal
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
A handsome token of appreciation given to Max and Marjorie Fisher from the Jewish Federation of Detroit, of which Max Fisher was president from 1959 to 1964.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Left to Right: Dan Lavin, Art Howard, Max Fisher, Abe Green, John Leerie, and Joseph Holtzman take a break for lunch during the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign.
Congratulatory letter from President Bill Clinton to Max Fisher for receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher and George Shultz with Jane Sherman at the Council of Jewish Federations General Assembly in San Francisco in 1990, during which Shultz was presented the Human Rights Award by his longtime friend Fisher.