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The invasion of Grenada came close to being a first, but it was not different enough from invasions and intrusions into Caribbean islands and Central America countries by other American presidents — most recently President Kennedy who half-heartedly invaded Cuba, and President Johnson who did the same in the Dominican Republic. Lebanon might have been a first for President Reagan, but for the fact that President Eisenhower sent Marines into that country in the mid-50s under cover of the “Eisenhower Doctrine.”
So now we come to the epoch claimed by the Reagan Administration but not yet validated by epochists, who are in short supply and somewhat out of practice. It is possible that the distinguishing mark of the Reagan Administration will be its “epochal character.” An epoch can start an era. It can also end one. What starts out an epoch may turn into an era. On the other hand an epoch can be short-lived. An epoch may be a first, but it need not be. We may, without knowing it, already be living in the epoch of Ronald Reagan, marked by a national debt likely to reach three trillion dollars by 1989 — the end of the Reagan Administration, or era.
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