The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Peter Cummings explains why Max Fisher is such an effective fund-raiser.
Left to Right: Alan E. Schwartz, Joseph L. Hudson, Robert E. McCabe, Max M. Fisher, A. Alfred Taubman
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Clips from 1969 articles highlighting Max Fisher's appointment as a Special Advisor to President Nixon.
Letter to President George H.W. Bush the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Louis Hamburger, Edward C. Levy, Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Itzhak Rabin, and Samuel Hamburger during the Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters Meeting at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.
Max M. Fisher prepares to accept the National Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee in 1994.
Detroit's Renaissance Center Article
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Congratulatory letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
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.
Max Fisher poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
Congratulatory letter from President Bill Clinton to Max Fisher for receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher with Richard Nixon in the White House