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Max Fisher is ‘Mr. Republican’
by Joseph Polakoff
DETROIT (JTA)—During the
recent GOP convention, “Mr.
Republican” was not Governor
William Milliken or Henry Ford II
or even Reagan. Since the
Republicans have never before
held their national conclave in
Detroit and since Reagan was their
unquestioned leader one suspected
that the top honor would go to one
of three mentioned. But no,
indeed.
The Monthly Detroit, a slick
200-page magazine selling for
SI.50 a copy, devoted the cover of
its July issue to “Max Fisher—
Power Broker," It showed him
smiling, spectacled, thinning gray
hair and wearing a white shirt, hlue
tie and white handkerchief in the
breast pocket of his dark suit,
befitting the conservative style of
the globally known benefactor
who achieved riches in gas and oil
in a typical "made in America"
story that Detroit’s Junior
Leaguers, like Bev Curtis of
Detroit's plush Grosse Point
suburb, proudly told visitors.
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entitled “The Power Broker," by
Kirk Cheyfits, the magazine
reported in big type beneath
another head photo of Fisher
backgrounded by the American
flag: “Max Fisher was a poor kid
from Ohio. Now his wealth is in
nine figures. He advises presidents
and prime ministers, directs
corporations, raises millions for
charities and politicians. He's a
member of the permanent
government."
The magazine describes “the
permanent government" as “that
elite band of wealthy men and
academics whose steady influence
ot\ national affairs continues
virtually undisturbed by the
temporary changes in leadership
occasioned by elections or shifts in
political power. In Fisher’s case.
Detroit’s mayors, Michigan’s
governors and America's
presidents come and go but Max
Fisher remains a constant force in
the affairs of the city, the state, the
nation and. to some extent, the
Detroit Renaissance Inc., which
led Detroit’s ,big businesses to
favor the vast changes from the
warehouses and slums on Detroit’s
river front to the magnificent
complex known as Renaissance
Center, where the invention took
place, was Fisher’s idea in 1970. He
organized it and became its first—
and thus far—its only chairman.
Along with his friend and partner,
Al Taubman, Detroit Renaissance
was behind Henry Ford’s decision
to build the center.
Detailing Fisher’s family
background, the Monthly Detroit
tells how his father, William, left the
poor Jewish ghetto of Kletsk
between Minsk and Pinsk in White
Russia when he was 18 and just
married. He made his way to
Pittsburgh in 1906 where he
peddled for a while and then to
Sale, Ohio, 60 miles west, to opens
store in a community without a
synagogue. The Fishers kept a
kosher house and put money in the
blue and white boxes to help build
a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
There Fisher grew up without
benefit of a Jewish education or bar
mitzva. As a high-school senior he
made all-country football center
and became known as “Friday"
and “Rabbi." Ohio State gave him
a football scholarship and the
family moved to Cleveland, and
then to Detroit, where hit
father with two partners put
together the Keystone Oil
Company, a one-pump gas station.
From this beginning. Max Fisher,
mainly on his own initiative and
with the discovery of oil and gas
in Michigan, went on to make his
fortune in petroleum and piping
for the wells. He never lost his
understanding or feeling of
Judaism, Jewry and Israel, and in
his yean rubbing elbows with the
most famous in a non-Jewish
world he was chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal, and today
is head of the board of the Jewish
Agency, probably the most
important Jewish post outside of
Israel.
How i
Republicans? Stephen Bull,
former President Nixon’s appoint
ments secretary, used to watch the
power broken come and go through
the Oval Office. "Of course, I know
Mr, Fisher," Bull said. “And it’s
always Mister Fisher. I think he is
probably the most prominent
Republican in the country."
Mel Larsen, Michigan’s
Republican Party chairman,
speaking of Fisher's role in the past
18 yean, said: “We’ve been very
fortunate to have him involved
in the Republican Party because if
you look at the most prominent,
influential individuals across this
country. Max Fisher has to be
right in the top."
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Senator Herman E. Talmadge
• voted for the Sinai Resolution establishing early-
warning monitoring stations in the Sinai
• voted for the Baker Amendment to the Internationa
Security Systems Act reaffirming the U.S.
commitment to Israel.
• voted for the Biden Resolution which attempted to
disapprove the selling of F-15 fighters to Saudi
Arabia itthiirif’fe I
• voted for the Javlts-Dole Amendment to the State
Department Authorization Act tightening
restrictions on the admission of PLO members to
the U.S. v
• voted for the Jackson Amendment supporting the
immigration of Soviet Jewry
• has always supported Israel and its right to exist as
a strong and Independent Jewish state, and has
been a true friend of the Jewish People