The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
"The Amazing Life of Max Fisher" ran as the feature story on the front page of The Detroit Free Press on October 2, 2003 and detailed the life of the philanthropist and the opening of the Max M. Fisher Music Center at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Place.
Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
HUD Certificate of Appreciation
Groundbreaking on the Riverfront Apartments
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
Max and his wife Marjorie at the National Distinguished Leadership Award festivities.
Al Taubman talks about the key to Max's ability to raise funds.
Abba Eban dinner
Robert Aronson explains how Max Fisher has been indispensible to Israeli leaders in helping them deal with America.
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
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.
Max Fisher, chairman of the board of directors, speaking at the United Brands Co. Annual Meeting in 1976.
Max Fisher in 25 words or less poster.
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
Correspondence between Max M. Fisher and Judge Sherman C. Finesilver concerning the Rogers Plan.