Max M. Fisher, Detroit financier and a Jewish community leader, has resigned as chairman of the National Center for Volunteer Action, established by President Nixon to enlist citizen action on the nation’s social problems. He said the job should be rotated annually, noting that he had already served 15 months, or since the beginning of the Nixon Administration. An informed Jewish source told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the resignation definitely did not indicate a break by Mr. Fisher with the Nixon position on the Middle East, adding that Mr. Fisher, whom he called one of the country’s leading “Jewish Republicans,” had been planning for several months to phase out his chairmanship after activating the NCVA. It is believed that Mr. Fisher will maintain a consultancy with the White House. The NCVA was created as a quasi-public, non-partisan, nonprofit agency. Mr. Fisher was serving as chairman without salary.
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