"Coordination"

Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson stuck out his right hand and grinned like the cat that swallowed a canary. Republican Senate Leader William Knowland stuck out his right hand and grinned like the canary that swallowed a cat. Johnson and Knowland were meeting in Washington last week to discuss the prospects of the newly elected. Democratic-controlled 85th Congress. Both seemed pleased with the way the 1956 election turned out.

The Democratic margin, rumbled Bill Knowland, "is so narrow that there is going to have to be coordination between the leaderships to get anything done." The U.S. Senate under his leadership, indicated Lyndon Johnson, will follow the same moderate course he charted for the 84th Congress. Said Johnson: "We'll have a good, reasonable group of men working for the best interests of the country."

The plain fact is that the balance of power in the 85th Congress will be almost identical with that of the 84th. In that situation the coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that ruled the 84th will also rule the 85th. And, like the Democratic 84th, the Democratic 85th should get along pretty well with Republican President Dwight Eisenhower.

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