The Washington Hilton's decades-long history with D.C. politics

Washington — Inside the kitchen at the Washington Hilton ahead of Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner are frenetic dinner preparations for about 2,600 people.  

"So, if it's a three-course, you multiply that by three, we could walk away doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen as a whole," Daniel Bennett, the hotel's executive chef, tells CBS News.

The correspondents' dinner has been an annual tradition since 1921, bringing together presidential comedy and the press corps, and the Hilton has been its home for 57 years.