The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
Congratulatory letter from Teddy Kollek to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.
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 meeting with Richard Nixon and other leaders, including John Ehrlichman, William Rogers, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, and William Wxler, in the White House in 1970.
Congratulatory letter from Dick Cheney to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
"The Gang of Eight" article
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Michigan Governor William Milliken
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
Max Fisher, Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein
Max Fisher in 25 words or less poster.
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
Michigan GOP Honors
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.