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By EUGENE McCARTHY
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
On his way to the island of Bali in late April of this year, President Reagan dropped down at the China Lake Naval Weapons Center in California to perform what the Administration's Director of Personnel Management, Constance Homer, declared to be an “epochal?’ act. The announcement received less attention than it should have, since epochs do not come along often and historically have lasting and significant consequences. Admittedly this epoch was a low-level one, an announcement of a proposal to simplify the civil service and extend the pay principles of private industry to the federal work force. Obviously it does not rank with the Bible’s great flood, an event long recognized as of epochal proportions, floating the Ark and making Noah’s reputation.
If this epoch stands the test of time, it will be the first presidential epoch in the history of the United States. Recent presidents have been more heavily into “eras,” starting them or ending them, or being caught in them. In fact there have been more eras identified by “eraists,” that is, experts in eras, in the last 30 years than were noted in the whole period of modem history — beginning with the “Era of Napoleon” as history turned into the 19th century, and ending with the “Era of Good Feeling” following World War I.
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