The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, by the numbers

President Barack Obama, left, speaks during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2014. (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo) Like every other major event in Washington , the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is the cumulative result of months of work by hundreds of people most Americans will never know. Love the dinner or hate it — and there are plenty of reasons to feel the latter emotion — it’s not just the president’s one-liners that require effor