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How Jimmy Carter's Face-Off with a Rabbit Changed the Presidency
https://www.wnyc.org/story/hare-brained-history-curious-case-jimmy-carter-v-rabbit/
Of all the crises that President Carter faced in 1979 -- gas shortages, hostage-taking, runaway inflation -- his bizarre encounter with a crazed swimming rabbit on a Georgia lake was as damaging as any to his image. The incident crystallized an emerging sense that Carter was a man in over his head.
The view was disputable. Carter had gotten off to a strong start as president, especially with his Nobel Prize-winning achievement of forging the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt. But by the time the "killer rabbit" story broke on a sluggish news day in August 1979, many of Carter's efforts to project himself as a forceful leader had fizzled or backfired.
The view was disputable. Carter had gotten off to a strong start as president, especially with his Nobel Prize-winning achievement of forging the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt. But by the time the "killer rabbit" story broke on a sluggish news day in August 1979, many of Carter's efforts to project himself as a forceful leader had fizzled or backfired.
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