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Washington – Within the kitchen in Washington Hilton in front of Saturday evening white house white houses are farting preparations for dinner for about 2,600 people.

“So if that’s a quarter, multiply that with three, we could go to doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen, Daniel Bennett, the executive chefs, tells the CBS news.

The Dinner correspondent It was an annual tradition since 1921. year, bringing together President comedy And press Corps, and Hilton was his home for 57 years.

Washington Hilton is also known for one of the darkest moments in presidential history. 30. March 1981. President Ronald Reagan just finished speech at the Union Convention and came out of the hotel when a bullet hit him Bi-Bio Assassination John Hinckley Jr. .

Reagan survived and returned to the hotel less than six months later.

There is now a plate that is complained about an attempt at assassination. Shortly afterwards, the garage was built with a safe door, so the presidential sedan can enter and come out with absolute certainty.
The garage entry leads to a long corridor decorated with photographs of each president and first lady.

Each president since Lyndon Johnson talked here, often exit to several excursions a year for fundraising, conferences and national prayer breakfast.

President Richard Nixon attended the inaugural ball on Hilton in 1969. as well as President Barack Obama 40 years later.

When the hotel opens in 1965. year, its double arched design was an architectural anomaly in the constant capital. His game room with 30,000 square feet is one of the largest closed spaces to collect in DC

It’s big enough for the host concert, including the Likes door in 1967. and Jimi Hendrix a year later.

Dinner for Saturday night, the correspondent will look a little different. There will There is no prominent comedianand President Trump, Who skipped Every dinner of the correspondent in his first time will not be attended. The writer and artist Amber Ruffin were announced as a night party in February. However, Ruffin who was critical of Mr. Trump, was withdrawn from the event in March.

Despite the controversy, for Hilton, this does not change the imperative to serve.

“Pretty, the day when the event ends, we are already planning for the next event,” said the General Manager of the Ken Jarko Hotel.

And what will define the successful dinner of the correspondent for Hilton?

“No one writes about us next morning. How is that?” Quied Corner.
Is not an easy feat in a newspaper.