Senator James O. Eastland; Herman E. Talmadge; Bob Dole; Dick Clark; Edward Zorinsky; Walter D. Huddleston; S.I. Hayakawa; James B. Allen; Dick Stone; Hubert H. Humphrey; John Melcher; George McGovern; Carl T. Curtis; Milton Young; Patrick Leahy; Jesse Helms; & Richard Lugar to President Jimmy Carter, 20 October 1977

Copy typed letter signed dated 20 October 1977 from Eastland; Herman E. Talmadge; Bob Dole; Dick Clark; Edward Zorinsky; Walter D. Huddleston; S.I. Hayakawa; James B. Allen; Dick Stone; Hubert H. Humphrey; John Melcher; George McGovern; Carl T. Curtis; Milton Young; Patrick Leahy; Jesse Helms; & Richard Lugar to Carter, re: agricultural exports, farm prices, Commodity Credit Corporation; 2 pages.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_h/1075/thumbnail.jp

Senator James O. Eastland; Herman E. Talmadge; Bob Dole; George McGovern; James B. Allen; Milton Young; Jesse Helms; Patrick Leahy; Henry Bellmon; S.I. Hayakawa; Carl T. Curtis; Richard Lugar; John Melcher; & Dick Clark to President Jimmy Carter, 14 October 1977

Copy typed letter signed dated 14 October 1977 from Eastland; Herman E. Talmadge; Bob Dole; George McGovern; James B. Allen; Milton Young; Jesse Helms; Patrick Leahy; Henry Bellmon; S.I. Hayakawa; Carl T. Curtis; Richard Lugar; John Melcher; & Dick Clark to Carter, re: New Orleans strike of International Longshoremens Association, grain exports; 2 pages.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_h/1069/thumbnail.jp

Bob Dole, [Carl T. Curtis, Herman E. Talmadge, James O. Eastland, S.I. Hykawa possibly] to President Jimmy Carter, 31 January 1978

Copy typed letter signed dated 31 January 1978 from Bob Dole, [Curtis, Talmadge, Eastland, Hykawa possibly] to Carter, re: European Community trade negotiations, soybeans.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_h/1090/thumbnail.jp

The conservation of energy-momentum and the mass for the graviton

In this work we give special attention to the bimetric theory of gravitation with massive gravitons proposed by Visser in 1998. In his theory, a prior background metric is necessary to take in account the massive term. Although in the great part of the astrophysical studies the Minkowski metric is the best choice to the background metric, it is not possible to consider this metric in cosmology. In order to keep the Minkowski metric as background in this case, we suggest an interpretation of the energy-momentum conservation in Visser's theory, which is in accordance with the equivalence principle and recovers naturally the special relativity in the absence of gravitational sources. Although we do not present a general proof of our hypothesis we show its validity in the simple case of a plane and dust-dominated universe, in which the `massive term' appears like an extra contribution for the energy density.Comment: 9 pages, accepted for publishing in GR

Using binary stars to bound the mass of the graviton

Interacting white dwarf binary star systems, including helium cataclysmic variable (HeCV) systems, are expected to be strong sources of gravitational radiation, and should be detectable by proposed space-based laser interferometer gravitational wave observatories such as LISA. Several HeCV star systems are presently known and can be studied optically, which will allow electromagnetic and gravitational wave observations to be correlated. Comparisons of the phases of a gravitational wave signal and the orbital light curve from an interacting binary white dwarf star system can be used to bound the mass of the graviton. Observations of typical HeCV systems by LISA could potentially yield an upper bound on the inverse mass of the graviton as strong as $h/m_{g} = \lambda_{g} > 1 \times 10^{15}$ km ($m_{g} < 1 \times 10^{-24}$ eV), more than two orders of magnitude better than present solar system derived bounds.Comment: 21 pages plus 4 figures; ReVTe