assurance of the speedy and comfortable homecoming of roughly twenty Americans expected to emerge from China. September 14 - United States Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson announces that he will refuse discussing trade or political questions with China unless China implements the agreement on American civilians made the previous week. 1956 June 29 – Interstate Highway System is created. October 29 – Suez Crisis November 6 – President Eisenhower wins re-election against former Governor Adlai Stevenson from Illinois, the Democratic candidate. 1957 January 5 – Eisenhower Doctrine is announced. January 20 – Second inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower September 9 – Civil Rights Act of 1957 October 4 – Sputnik 1 is launched, the first artificial Earth satellite. October 5 – The White House praises Russia's launch of an earth satellite and that the launch was not surprising to President Eisenhower or the government. It is disclosed that the Justice Department is considering publicizing the information that motivated President Eisenhower to send federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas. 1958 January 3 – President Eisenhower meets with his cabinet on the subject of the balanced budget intended to be submitted to Congress the following month. January 6 – President Eisenhower meets with the National Security Council for a discussion on US strategy for the Cold War and the military aspects of his upcoming State of the Union address. January 9 – United States Secretary of State John Dulles answers questions from senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a closed door meeting. July 29 – The National Aeronautics and Space Act established NASA. September 2 – National Defense Education Act 1959 January 1 – Cuban Revolution ousts Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. June 19 – Eisenhower's nomination of Lewis Strauss to serve as U.S. Secretary of Commerce is defeated in the United States Senate. 1960 January 1– President Eisenhower spends New Year's Day in Mamie's Cabin at the Augusta National Golf club. United States Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell holds separate meetings with steel chief industry negotiator R. Conrad Cooper and President of the United Steel Workers Union David J. McDonald in an attempt to resolve the steel dispute. The United States Department of Agriculture is announced to have donated 2,000 bales of cotton to both Formosa and offshore islands. January 2– President Eisenhower spends the day working on his budget and the messages to be conveyed within his State of