Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, endures as a spectral presence in the White House's Mural Room, where a plaque immortalizes his ritual: sipping whiskey from a charcoal keg while reading by the antique fireplace's glow. This vignette pierces the late-night staff fiasco of wet logs and welded flues, yanking Josh and Sam's blundering warmth quest into the orbit of presidential legacy. Johnson's fireside ease contrasts the Oval's frenetic pulse, anchoring the building's bones in 19th-century solitude amid modern mayhem.