He was unable to reach a definite conclusion about its state of mind. The President confessed to having had limited experience with enraged rabbits. The animal was clearly in distress, or perhaps berserk. Not one of your cutesy, Easter Bunny-type rabbits, but one of those big splay-footed things that we called swamp rabbits when I was growing up. Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a rabbit. In his 1986 book The Other Side of the Story, Powell recounted the story: Powell also writes that journalist Robert Novak stated he saw documents that revealed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a result of Carter's purported weakness in the incident. The White House declined to release the photo to the media until it turned up during the Reagan administration and the story saw a revival.Īccording to Carter's press secretary Jody Powell, columnist George Will reportedly blamed the Iran hostage crisis on Carter's "timid" response of splashing water towards the rabbit instead of having the Secret Service shoot it. Media accounts Īssociated Press correspondent Brooks Jackson's story on the incident was published August 30, 1979, in various newspapers, including on the front page of The Washington Post with the title "Bunny Goes Bugs: Rabbit Attacks President." The White House did not publicly release a photograph of the event until much later, and the Post printed a cartoon parody of the Jaws poster labeled "PAWS" as its illustration. However, a White House photographer had taken a picture of the incident, which was released by the Reagan administration. When Carter returned to his office, his staff did not believe his story, saying rabbits could not swim or that one would never approach a person threateningly. When he got almost there, I splashed some water with a paddle." The animal was in distress or possibly "berserk". Carter said a rabbit being chased by hounds "jumped in the water and swam toward my boat. President Jimmy Carter was fishing in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, on April 20, 1979, alone in a flat-bottomed boat while staff were on land nearby. According to Powell, anti-Carter political commentators went so far as to blame it for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran hostage crisis. Political opponents argued that the incident was symbolic of Carter's purported weakness. The incident caught the imagination of the media after Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell, mentioned the event to a correspondent months later. President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat on April 20, 1979. The Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, sensationalized as the " killer rabbit attack" by the press, involved a swamp rabbit ( Sylvilagus aquaticus) that swam toward then- U.S. That is unless you give your gold count a boost by buying gold through an in-app purchase.April 20, 1979, White House photo of Carter and rabbit from the Carter Library You earn about 600-700 coins per level and at that rate, it will take you a while before you can afford a better weapon. The game needs to either lower the prices or increase the amount of gold you earn during gameplay to make these weapons more affordable. My only gripe about Swamp Attack (and it is a minor nit) is the price to unlock new weapons is a wee bit on the high side. It only takes about 8 minutes to replenish an energy unit, so you won't have wait long to get back to gameplay. While I'm not a big fan of requiring energy units or tokens for gameplay, Swamp Attack does afford you plenty of energy to keep you busy for a good bit before things dry up.
The game has nicely drawn-up graphics and animations and the pace of gameplay is fast and challenging. Swamp Attack is an entertaining time waster of a game and with over 300 levels of gameplay, it shouldn't get old too quick. You'll find yourself stuck with a shotgun for a while (until you can gather $15,000 in gold for an UZI), which creates a need time your shots carefully to avoid getting eaten while you are reloading. While most of the game is simply blasting the swamp creatures into oblivion, there is a bit of strategy involved in playing Swamp Attack.
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