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Date: September 8, 1975
Media Type: Document
Max Fisher visited the White House to confer with President Ford eight times during the spring and summer of 1975, including September 8. This Memorandum of Conversation documents one of their meetings. Max also made several trips to Israel in 1975. He was a trusted, unofficial statesman who could convey private messages and provide advice and counsel to both the US President the Israeli Prime Minister.
Date: April 26, 1972
Media Type: Document
In April 1972, Max Fisher was President of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. He met, along with leaders of other Jewish organizations, with President Nixon, Secretary of State William Rogers and Leonard Garment. They discussed the quality of life of Soviet Jews and how US policy could help convince the Soviets to allow them to emigrate to Israel.
Date: August 11, 1981
Media Type: Letter
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jacob Stein, Special Advisor to the White House.
Date: April 1, 1975
Media Type: Article
April 1975 Detroit newspaper article about Max Fisher's negotiations between the United States and Israel. Headline reads: "President Meets with Max Fisher."
Date: January 30, 1970
Media Type: Letter
1970 letter from Louis D. Horwitz to Max M. Fisher, with a translation of the French article concerning the National Emergency on Peace in the Middle East Conference in Washington.