Last modified: Mon Apr 5 10:20:46 EDT 2004 The rabbit. Photo courtesy of Jimmy Carter Library President Jimmy Carter and the "killer rabbit" April 20th, 1979 On a fishing trip in Plains, Georgia, President Carter had an encounter with a "swamp rabbit". This seemingly trivial event was seized upon by the press and became a sort of Rorschach test of the Carter presidency: reporters and commentators saw in this story whatever they wanted to see in Carter's administration. Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, described the affair in his 1986 book The Other Side of the Story: It began late...