Antics in the White House by the Potus or his kids are nothing new. Rather than rehash the course of the US history I will just mention that the Lincolns allowed Tad's goat to roam through the edifice and irritate Nicolay and Hay.
Before this Borgnine thread is closed, I looked in AllMovie for a list of his film credits, and found him playing the bad smokiebear who chased the truckers in Convoy, and who could forget him getting eaten by the rats in Willard. Mad magazine did one of their greatest movie satires trashing Willard. We love ya, Ernest.
Before Ernie did Marty it was a TV drama starring Rod Steiger--another of the Kings of acting. Both of them were in the Navy in WW2. And my personal Actor is Frank Thring, who was the bad king in The Vikings and played bad kings in all those 50s-60s ancient spectacles. No one could throw his toga around him and look haughty like Frank. Ernie, Rod, and Frank.
Don't forget EB's performance as a rapist bad guy(in a trio with Jack Elam and Strother Martin) doomed to all be killed one at a time by Raquel Welch in leather pants, in Hannie Caulder