Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Johnson ta sami hankalin kasa a shekara ta 2009, lokacin da yake da shekaru 105, ta halarci bikin rantsar da Shugaba Barack Obama
a Washington D.C. An rufe shi a cikin jakar bacci da tufafi masu nauyi don karewa daga yanayin sanyi, Johnson ya halarci rantsar da tikitin da Ohio U.S. Sanata Sherrod Brown ya bayar. A cikin hirarraki da yawa, Johnson ya ce game da Shugaba Obama, "Na same shi mai ban sha'awa da ban mamaki" kuma ya yi hasashen mataimakin shugaban Amurka na gaba: "Allah ba zai ba wa 'yan Afirka ba abin da ba zai ba wa mata ba".