Washington – Within the kitchen in the Washington Hilton before the dinner of correspondents of the White House on Saturday night they are the preparations of the frantic dinner for some 2,600 people.
“Then, if it is a crisis of three, it multiplies that by three, we could get away by doing almost 10,000 dishes in the kitchen in general,” said Daniel Bennett, the hotel executive chef, CBS News.
He Correspondent dinner It has been an annual tradition since 1921, gathering Presidential Comedy And Press’s body, and Hilton has been his home for 57 years.
The Washington Hilton is also known for one of the darkest moments in presidential history. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan had just spoken at a Union Convention and was emerging from the hotel when he was hit by a bullet of The possible murderer John Fanckley Jr. .
Reagan survived and returned to the hotel less than six months later.
Now, there is a plaque that commemorates the murder attempt. Little of that, a garage was built with insurance so that the presidential limousine can enter and leave with absolute certainty.
The garage entrance leads to a long corridor adorned with photos of each president and first lady.
All the president since Lyndon Johnson has spoken here, or making several trips a year to raise funds, conferences and the national breakfast.
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President Richard Nixon attended an inaugural ball in the Hilton in 1969, as well as President Barack Obama 40 years later.
When the hotel opened in 1965, its double arch design was an architectural anomaly in a capital city of Santa. Its 30,000 square feet dance hall is one of the largest internal meeting spaces in DC
It is large enough to organize concerts, including The Daors’s tastes in 1967 and Jimi Hendrix a year later.
The correspondent dinner on Saturday night will look a bit different. At will Do not be outstanding comedianand President Trump, Who released The dinner of all correspondents in his first mandate will not attend. Amber Ruffin writer and interpreter had been announced as The Night’s Entertainment in February. However, Ruffin, who has been critical or Mr. Trump, was taken from the event in March.
Despite the controversy, for the Hilton, that does not change the imperative to serve.
“More or less, the day the event ends, we are already planning the next event,” said the general manager of the Ken Jarka hotel.
And what will the successful dinner of the correspondents for Hilton define?
“No one is writing about us the next morning. How is that?” He joked Jarka.
It is not an easy feat in a room or journalists.
Major Garrett
