question: How far from the White House is the hotel where the Peace Conference of 1861 occurred?
answer: two blocks
context: Title: Peace Conference of 1861
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Eric Schultz
  Passage: 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."
  Title: Czech Corridor
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Christian Peace Conference
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Willard InterContinental Washington
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Madrid peace conference letter of invitation
  Passage: 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.
citations: Willard InterContinental Washington Peace Conference of 1861