Exhibit 99.1

                   STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE
                    OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES
                        RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, David R. Whitwam, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of
Whirlpool Corporation, state and attest that:

       (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
       reports of Whirlpool Corporation, and, except as corrected or
       supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

           .      no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
                  fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
                  the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
                  materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

           .      no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary
                  to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
                  circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
                  the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case
                  of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of
                  the date on which it is filed).

       (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's
       audit committee.

       (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
       before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

.. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2001 of
  Whirlpool Corporation filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
  March 5, 2002 (Commission file number 1-3932);

.. Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q of Whirlpool Corporation filed with the
  Commission on April 25, 2002 and July 29, 2002; Current Reports on Form 8-K of
  Whirlpool Corporation filed with the Commission on February 8, 2002, February
  28, 2002, and April 22, 2002; and the definitive proxy materials of Whirlpool
  Corporation filed with the Commission on March 8, 2002.

    /s/ David R. Whitwam                             Subscribed and sworn to
    David R. Whitwam                                 before me this 5/th/ day of
    August 5, 2002                                   August, 2002
                                                     in Berrien County, Michigan
                                                     /s/ Betty J. Ulery
                                                     Betty J. Ulery
                                                     Notary Public

                                                     My Commission Expires:
                                                     December 6, 2003