Education
She briefly attended Antioch College in Ohio and then moved to New York in 1929 to obtain work as a secretary.
founders of Sears When President
She briefly attended Antioch College in Ohio and then moved to New York in 1929 to obtain work as a secretary.
Foreign many years she was the personal secretary to Mistress David Levy, whose father was one of the founders of Sears, Roebuck and Company. She went to Eisenhower’s headquarters at Denver, Colorado where she became Eisenhower’s personal secretary.
After Eisenhower was elected president, Mistress
Whitman accompanied him to Washington, District of Columbia, and served as his personal secretary the entire eight years of his presidency. She helped manage Eisenhower’s correspondence and was responsible for maintaining Eisenhower’s personal files which he kept in his office at the White House.
When President Eisenhower left office in January 1961, Mistress Whitman accompanied him to his farm (now the Eisenhower National Historic Site) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and continued to work for a few months as his personal secretary.
She later joined the staff of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, for whom she worked until she retired in 1977.
A biography of Whitman, entitled Confidential Secretary, was written by journalist Robert Donovan in 1988.