One hundred
and six years old McLaurin, who said she was born in South Carolina in 1909,
the White House invitation was a long time in the making.
It's been
more than a year since she started a White House petition asking to meet the
president -and offering to come to his house to make it easier.
'I didn't
think I'd ever live to see a coloured president,' McLaurin, who is black, said
in a YouTube video accompanying the petition.
At 106 years
old, she's seen more than a dozen presidents come and go, but Virginia McLaurin
says she can finally die happy after meeting President Barack Obama. Video of
the centenarian shaking her groove with the president and his wife quickly went
viral on the Internet after last week's Black History Month reception at the
White House.
The
grandmother told The Associated Press that when she saw the president and first
lady Michelle Obama in the flesh, 'I was so happy, I started dancing.'
'I've come a
long ways, a long ways,' McLaurin said in an interview outside her Washington
home. 'I just didn't think I'd ever live to go this far in the world.'
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