The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Date: April 30, 1969
Media Type: Award
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action
Date: October 12, 1994
Media Type: Letter
Congratulatory letter from George P. Shultz to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Date: October 1, 1984
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
Date: June 1, 1971
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher, Golda Meir and others
Date: December 4, 1994
Media Type: Letter
Congratulatory letter from Dick Cheney to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Media Type: Photo
Renaissance Center
Date: March 29, 1971
Media Type: Letter
Letters congratulating Max Fisher on his 1971 "What Can We Do for Detroit?" speech.
Media Type: Photo
Christmas shoppers in Detroit in the 1950s
Date: September 9, 2003
Media Type: Video
Bob McCabe discusses Max Fisher's key role in the Detroit Renaissance, his leadership and his ability to build consensus.
Date: January 19, 1989
Media Type: Letter
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Moshe Arad, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States.
Date: June 1, 1971
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Date: September 6, 2003
Media Type: Video
Bill Berman talks about Max Fisher's commitment to finding consensus among groups in the pursuit of the right decision.
Date: November 15, 1994
Media Type: Letter
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Date: December 4, 1994
Media Type: Award
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Date: July 15, 1971
Media Type: Award
Detroit News on July 15, 1971
Media Type: Letter
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.