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Today in Odd History, President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit
during a fishing trip in Plains, Georgia. The rabbit, which may have
been fleeing a predator, swam toward his boat, "hissing menacingly,
its teeth flashing and nostrils flared." President Carter was forced
to swat at the vicious beast with a canoe paddle, which apparently
scared it off.

Upon his return to the White House, Carter told his staff about the
furry amphibian's assault. Most of them refused to believe him,
insisting that rabbits can't swim (although since most mammals can
swim, there's no reason to believe that rabbits cannot), and that even
if they could, they certainly wouldn't attack humans, and certainly
not presidents. Fortunately, a White House photographer had been on
the scene, and had recorded the bizarre attack. The photograph showed
Carter with his paddle raised, warding off a small creature which
might, or might not, have been a rabbit. One staffer was quoted as
saying, "You couldn't tell what it was." Undaunted by their
skepticism, Carter had the image enlarged, and there it was--a killer
bunny rabbit, apparently bent on assassinating the president.

The story might have ended there, except that White House Press
Secretary Jody Powell mentioned the incident to Associated Press
reporter Brooks Jackson in August. The Washington Post ran it as front
page news. The original photograph was not available (until the Reagan
administration leaked it in 1981), but the paper filled the gap with a
cartoon modeled on the poster for the movie Jaws, starring the rabbit
and entitled Paws. Powell made a belated attempt to impress the public
with the seriousness of the attack, calling the creature a "swamp
rabbit," but since Carter had to appease his rabbit-loving
constituents by insisting that he had not actually smacked his
buck-toothed opponent with his paddle, but only splashed water at it
to drive it away, it seemed unlikely that he had been in danger. The
entire episode became a symbol of Carter's floundering presidency.
According to Powell, "[I]t shows the extent to which an insignificant
incident can snowball and end up in newspapers and news shows across
the country.” Carter biographer Douglas Brinkley says, “It just played
up the Carter flake factor.... I mean, he had to deal with Russia and
the Ayatollah and here he was supposedly fighting off a rabbit.”

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net had some very interesting things to say
about Re: how to relax:

Try http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_019.html

Yeah, I went and checked; you're right. I sure remember the first stories
saying he killed it, though. Oh well, chalk one more up to CRS Syndrome...

You've never been to Discworld, have you?