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In the 1970s, he was known as a tough-minded supporter who could be counted on for a meticulous review of how the endowments were spending their money.
Back then, public broadcasting and the national endowments for the Arts and Humanities were (rightly) taken to task as mechanisms for transferring money from working-class families to a handful of elite subversives in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles.
As of January 2000, Thumairy was employed by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Religious Endowments and Religious Guidance, to act as the consulate's liaison to the mosque.
[T]he magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.
The NYT reports that "robust investment returns coupled with strong donations to higher education have created a financial boom for American colleges and universities, 25 of which now have endowments of $1 billion or more."