The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Gerald Ford recalls Max Fisher's effective fundraising.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jack J. Spitzer, President of B'nai B'rith International.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to President Nixon concerning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's 1969 visit.
A personal letter from Secretary of State George Shultz.
Congratulatory letter from President Ronald Reagan to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Agreement for the Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency of Israel
Max Fisher speaks at the Allied Jewish Campaign fundraising event in 1958.
Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
Letter from President Ronald Reagan to Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, regarding a visit from Max M. Fisher.
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
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.
1960 UJA Overseas Report
Congratulatory letter from President Bill Clinton to Max Fisher for receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.