President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush sought re-election in 1984. He vowed not to raise taxes and ran on his record of the previous' four years. His tactic worked. President Reagan won re-election with the biggest electoral vote in the nation's history with 49 percent of the total vote. The United States Marines arrived in Beirut in 1982. Lebanon was torn by civil war and foreign invasion. In 1984 when the Marines left, more than 260 Marines were dead, Lebanon was still at war with most of its territory occupied by foreign troups and its government tottering. 126 Current Events
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