The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher and President Ronald Reagan in the oval office.
Peter Cummings relates Max Fisher's instinct to work behind the scenes.
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"
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and President Jimmy Carter
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 at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Correspondence between Max M. Fisher and Judge Sherman C. Finesilver concerning the Rogers Plan.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to President Nixon concerning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's 1969 visit.
Peter Cummings explains why Max Fisher is such an effective fund-raiser.
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jack J. Spitzer, President of B'nai B'rith International.