For 10 points, name this event which resulted in the formation of the Kitchen Cabinet, the ascension of Martin Van Buren, and involved the wife of Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War.
This event is the subject of the 1936 film The Gorgeous Hussy. This event involved John B. Timberlake, a Naval purser who had died some years before. For 10 points, name this event which resulted in the formation of the Kitchen Cabinet, the ascension of Martin Van Buren, and involved the wife of Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War.
This event is the subject of the 1936 film The Gorgeous Hussy.
Petticoat Affair [or the Eaton Affair or the Eaton Malaria]