Washington – In the kitchen of the Washington Hilton before the dinner of the white house correspondents on Saturday night, there is a frantic preparation for dinners for about 2,600 people.
“So, if it is three dishes, multiply it at three, we could move away from almost 10,000 dishes in the kitchen in general,” says Daniel Bennett, the hotel’s executive chef, in CBS News.
It Dinner of correspondents It has been an annual tradition since 1921, gathering Presidential comedy And the press body, and Hilton has been his home for 57 years.
Washington Hilton is also known for one of the darkest moments in presidential history. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan had just spoken in a union convention and left the hotel when he was run over by a bullet The killer John Hinckley Jr. .
Reagan survived and returned to the hotel less than six months later.
Now, there is a plaque commemorating the murder attempt. Shortly afterwards, a garage was built with a safe door so that the presidential limo could enter and leave with absolute security.
The entrance to the garage leads to a long corridor adorned with photos of each president and first lady.
Each President of Lyndon Johnson has spoken here, often making several trips a year for fundraising, conferences and national prayer breakfast.
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President Richard Nixon attended an inaugural ball in Hilton in 1969, as President Barack Obama did 40 years later.
When the hotel opened in 1965, its double arch design was an architectural anomaly in capital capital. Its 30,000 -feet dance room is one of the largest meeting spaces in DC
It is large enough to host concerts, including the tastes of the doors in 1967 and Jimi Hendrix a year later.
The dinner of the correspondents on Saturday night will be a little different. There will be not be a prominent comedianand President Trump, that jumped The dinner of all the correspondents will be attended in his first term. The writer and performer Amber Ruffin had announced himself as an entertainment of the night in February. However, Luffin, who has been critical of Mr. Trump, was taken from the event in March.
Despite the controversy, for Hilton, this does not change the imperative to serve.
“Almost, the day the event is over, we already plan the next event,” said Hotel’s CEO Ken Jarka.
And what will define the correspondent dinner successfully for Hilton?
“No one writes about us the next morning. How is that?” left Jarka.
It’s not an easy feat in a journalist room.
