The Pompidou Center had persuaded President Jacques Chirac of France to visit here in October 2004 to make its case , while Thomas Krens , the director of the Guggenheim Foundation , had publicly described the initiative as '' ` the most exciting opportunity in the world because of the scale and the location . ''
Jacques Chirac /people/person/nationality France
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