Why the 106-Year-Old Woman Who Danced with Obamas at the WH Wants Hillary for President
When President Obama told the dancing 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin to "slow down" during her visit to the White House on Thursday, he could have been talking to her any day of the week.
McLaurin, who met the president and First Lady Michelle Obama in honor of Black History Month, tells PEOPLE she volunteers 40 hours per week as a "foster grandparent" and has been moving and shaking for as long as she can remember.
"Oh yes, ever since I was in my young life, I have danced," she says. McLaurin spent many of her dancing days at the historic Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C., doing a move she called "picking cherries" and even partying with James Brown once, she told The Washington Post during an interview Monday.
Growing up as a young black woman in South Carolina in the early 1900s was not easy for McLaurin, who spent her early years picking cotton and shucking corn, according to the Post. But the Washington, D.C., resident says she can now "die smiling" after she met, danced with and even got a kiss from America's first black president...
As for the next president she'd love to meet in the White House?
"Hillary Clinton," she says. "I think every human being means something in her life, and she tried to help the person that's less fortunate than the rich person or the person with a lot of money."
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