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Bush : President Promises To UniteBy Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 4, 2004; Page A27

President Bush, his victory party delayed 12 hours instead of 36 days, as it was in 2000, claimed a broad mandate for his policies yesterday, declared "a duty to serve all Americans" and vowed to try again to become a uniter, not a divider.

The president's promise, coming after a presidential campaign that will be remembered for the blistering rhetoric and advertising of both candidates, echoed a declaration he made after the Florida recount battle of four years ago, when he said in the chamber of the Texas House of Representatives that he "was not elected to serve one party, but to serve one nation."

Yesterday's emotional celebration at the Ronald Reagan Building marked a triumphal ending to a roller-coaster week. Bush had looked sluggish in surveys before Election Day and was down sharply in exit polls taken while the polls were open, yet he won both the popular and the electoral votes -- racking up more of the former than any presidential candidate in history.

The party was a rare joint appearance for Bush and Vice President Cheney, and they were surrounded onstage by their families -- including Cheney's daughter Mary and her partner, Heather Poe, who had rarely appeared together during the campaign.

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23784-2004Nov3.html

note: Bush voices support for same-sex civil unions

  AFP: 10/26/2004
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush stressed Tuesday that he supports states' rights to allow civil unions for same-sex couples, contrary to his Republican Party's official stance, although he still opposes gay marriage.
"I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what the state chooses to do," Bush said in an interview with ABC television aired Tuesday.
However, he added: "I view the definition of marriage as different than a legal arrangement that enables people to have rights. I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as a union between a man and a woman."
Asked to comment on his party's opposition to civil unions, Bush said he disagreed with that position. The platform was adopted during the Republican National Convention in New York last month, when Bush officially received the party's nomination for the November 2 presidential election.
Bush favors a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, while his opponent, Democratic Senator John Kerry, feels that each state should decide for itself whether to permit same-sex couples to wed.
10/26/2004 13:21 GMT - AFP
source: http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=31871
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" So the Republican platform on that point, as far as you're concerned, is wrong ? " Gibson asked the president, to which Bush replied: " Right ."

source:
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041026-121303-1337r.htm