The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Clips from 1969 articles highlighting Max Fisher's appointment as a Special Advisor to President Nixon.
Correspondence between Max M. Fisher and Judge Sherman C. Finesilver concerning the Rogers Plan.
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
Gerald Ford recalls Max Fisher's effective fundraising.
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Jane Sherman talks about her father's motivation to help rebuild Detroit after the 1967 riots.
Max Fisher and President Ronald Reagan in the oval office.
Left to Right: Alan E. Schwartz, Joseph L. Hudson, Robert E. McCabe, Max M. Fisher, A. Alfred Taubman
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.
Peter Golden offers an enlightening quote about Max Fisher from Ronald Reagan.
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.
1990 letter from Max M. Fisher to Secretary of State Jim Baker concerning Middle East peace policy.
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
The Riverfront development in Detroit, part of the city's Renaissance led by Fisher and Taubman
President Reagan's Task Force Welcoming Letter