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I can't believe I remember this story from when I was 9 years old...........
On April 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter was fishing in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Aside from his staff watching from the shore, he was at the lake alone – or so he thought.
He heard a splash in the water, turned around and saw that a rabbit had “jumped in the water and swam toward my boat. When he almost got there, I splashed some water with a paddle.” Press Secretary Jody Powell described it as “not one of your cutesy, Easter Bunny-type rabbits.”
“The President confessed to having had limited experience with enraged rabbits. What was obvious, however, was that this large, wet animal, making strange hissing noises and gnashing its teeth, was intent upon climbing into the Presidential boat.”
In a 2010 interview, Carter described the incident and the media circus around it as a “humorous and still lasting story.” One of the debates around the incident was whether rabbits could even swim. To that, Carter said, “Of course!” After the story was publicized, people who kept rabbits at home put them in their swimming pools and wrote to the White House validating his story.
On April 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter was fishing in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Aside from his staff watching from the shore, he was at the lake alone – or so he thought.
He heard a splash in the water, turned around and saw that a rabbit had “jumped in the water and swam toward my boat. When he almost got there, I splashed some water with a paddle.” Press Secretary Jody Powell described it as “not one of your cutesy, Easter Bunny-type rabbits.”
“The President confessed to having had limited experience with enraged rabbits. What was obvious, however, was that this large, wet animal, making strange hissing noises and gnashing its teeth, was intent upon climbing into the Presidential boat.”
In a 2010 interview, Carter described the incident and the media circus around it as a “humorous and still lasting story.” One of the debates around the incident was whether rabbits could even swim. To that, Carter said, “Of course!” After the story was publicized, people who kept rabbits at home put them in their swimming pools and wrote to the White House validating his story.
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