Question: How far from the White House is the hotel where the Peace Conference of 1861 occurred?
Context: The Christian Peace Conference was an international organization based in Prague and founded in 1958 by Josef Hromádka, a pastor who had spent the war years in the United States, moving back to Czechoslovakia when the war ended.  Hromádka was a member of the Bureau of the World Peace Council.  He was not a Marxist, but the Christian Peace Conference often endorsed positions taken by Eastern bloc governments.  It has been alleged to have received $210,000 from Soviet sources. The Czech Corridor was a failed proposal during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 in the aftermath of World War I.  The proposal would have carved out an area of land to connect the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.  A different name often given is "Czech–Yugoslav Territorial Corridor".  It is called the Czech Corridor, because representatives of Yugoslavia at the Peace Conference stated that they would prefer it be given to the Czechs.  The proposal was rejected by the conference. Eric Schultz is a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama and is the founder of Schultz Group.  Schultz is a former White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary and special assistant to President Obama.  Recognized by "Politico" as the strategist “White House officials turn to in a crisis to handle communications,” Schultz was originally hired at the White House in 2011 to respond to Congressional oversight investigations.  After White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest replaced Jay Carney to become White House Press Secretary, Schultz was appointed White House Deputy Press Secretary.  In this role, Schultz often diffuses "tensions with humor.  But he can be relentless in pushing his message in both public and private conversations.”  Former White House Communications Director Jen Psaki compared Schultz to fictional crisis manager Olivia Pope, "he's the person you want next to you in a foxhole when there's a crisis."  At the end of President Obama's second term, former White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett said of Schultz, “We’ve all grown to rely on his wise counsel" and that the President "trusts his sound judgement." The Willard InterContinental Washington is a historic luxury Beaux-Arts hotel located at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, the Peacock Alley series of luxury shops, and voluminous function rooms.  Owned by InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, it is two blocks east of the White House, and two blocks west of the Metro Center station of the Washington Metro. The Peace Conference of 1861 was a meeting of 131 leading American politicians in February 1861, at the Willard's Hotel in Washington, DC, on the eve of the American Civil War.  The success of President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential elections led to a flurry of political activity.  In much of the South, elections were held to select delegates to special conventions to consider secession from the Union.  In Congress, efforts were made in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to reach compromise over the issues relating to slavery that were dividing the nation.  The conference was the final effort by the individual states to resolve the crisis.  With the seven states of the Cotton South already committed to secession, the emphasis to preserve the Union peacefully focused on the eight slaveholding states representing the Upper and Border South, with the states of Virginia and Kentucky playing key roles. A White House conference is a national meeting sponsored by the Executive Office of the President of the United States with the purpose of discussing an issue or topic of importance to the American public.  Some last for one day while others last for several.  Typical attendees of a White House conference include experts in the particular field, community leaders and citizens with an interest in the issue.  The President usually speaks to a general session of the conference; the conference concludes by issuing a report to the President summarizing issues and making recommendations for executive or legislative action.  The First Lady of the United States also sometimes hosts White House conferences.  White House conferences are typically created by specific legislation. The Madrid peace conference letter of invitation, also known as the Madrid Invitation or Letter of invitation to the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid, of October 19, 1991, was a formal diplomatic invitation by the United States and the Soviet Union issued to Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians, calling on them to come together and hold a peace conference in Madrid, Spain.  The resulting conference came to be known as the Madrid Conference that commenced on October 30, 1991. The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers diplomats from more than 32 countries and nationalities. The Geneva II Conference on Syria (also called Geneva II Middle East peace conference or simply Geneva II) was a United Nations-backed international peace conference on the future of Syria with the aim of ending the Syrian Civil War, by bringing together the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition to discuss the clear steps towards a transitional government for Syria with full executive powers.  The conference took place on 22 January 2014 in Montreux, on 23–31 January 2014 in Geneva (Switzerland), and again on 10–15 February 2014. Dalton Delan (born August 5, 1954) is an American writer, editor, and television producer.  His works with WETA, PBS and Sundance have won him numerous awards for his documentaries and primetime shows.  A number of his projects include working alongside Robert Redford.  He is executive producer of In Performance at the White House; bringing Bob Dylan in 2010, and Paul McCartney to the White House in 2011, with Mick Jagger performing in 2012.  So far, Delan has worked with presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in making the In Performance at the White House possible.  Delan is also an executive producer of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, presented by the Kennedy Center to notable names in humor and comedy.  Delan is also Co-Creator and an Executive Producer of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Music, whose first recipient was Paul Simon, in a ceremony at the Warner Theater.  He then arranged the relocation of the ceremony to the White House as part of the In Performance at the White House series on PBS, with subsequent honorees Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and Carole King in 2013.
Answer: two blocks