Most of the world’s “Executive Mansions” are infested with vermin.
Actually there was a companion story, the White House is filled with roaches. Oddly enough Carrol Browner, Clinton’s head of the EPA banned Diazanon; the best roach spray ever invented. Once I got rid of the pack-rat tenants that came with the duplex it took me 3 months and they were gone, gone gone....