The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
Construction of Renaissance Center
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Congratulatory letter from Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Letter from President Ronald Reagan to Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, regarding a visit from Max M. Fisher.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.
Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.
Jewish Welfare Federation Plaque
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher with Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher and President George H. W. Bush outside the White House. Signed, "To Max - I love this shot. Your friend - George Bush"
Congratulatory letter from Brian Kott, President of the Detroit Chapter of the AJC, to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award.
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.