* The Hilton Washington has 1,119 sleeping rooms. GAC attendees occupy and estimated 95% of them each year.
* The hotel has 900 full-time employees, among who are spoken 32 different languages.
* The hotel each year hosts 30 different events involving the President of the United States. The largest of those events, the National Prayer Breakfast, occurs the first Thursday of each year and serves an average of 3,700 people.
* The hotel has a private lead-lined elevator for the President that runs from the President's Rotunda to the International Ballroom, then directly to the Presidential Suite.
* President Reagan was shot outside the Hilton hotel in 1981. Today there is an enclosed portico for the president to enter and exit his limousine.
