We went on one dinner date, where we partook in delightful repartee, but, afterwards, we made out on the street, and he was clearly not into being with a guy who didn't have a Dominant Black Men baseball card collection.
The opening line of my notes on one dinner reads, "I am done with giving this place a chance".
"A one-on-one dinner for a first date is just too pressured and stressful".
Referring to his one-on-one dinner with Trump on January 27 , 2017 during which the new President told him, "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty," Comey recalls that it brought him right back to "The Ravenite.
A detailed account in the Times described a one-on-one dinner at the White House in January, shortly after the Inauguration, in which Trump, three times, asked Comey to pledge his loyalty to him.
I have never been invited to a one-on-one dinner at Richard Riordan's house in Brentwood Park, but people who did attend such dinners during the campaign reported that the candidate ordered in pizza, placed it in its box on the dining-room table, and escorted the guest down to an astonishingly extensive wine cellar, there to select a legendary Bordeaux.
He was due to have a one-on-one dinner at the palace of Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to press the case for the Emirates to choose Typhoons, built by a consortium including BAE Systems, over France's rival Rafale fighter.
As he told us then, he'd already met Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, enjoyed a one-on-one dinner with Cisco's legendary former CEO John Chambers, and was on his way to meet for the first time with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Indeed, he asked Comey for his loyalty in their first one-on-one dinner in January 2017 (Comey said he'd promise his "honesty").
Comey describes in detail a one-on-one dinner he attended with the president on Jan . 27 roughly three-and-a-half months before Trump fired him.
Comey's second conversation with Trump occurred on Jan . 27during a one-on-one dinner at the Green Room in the White House where they were "seated at a small oval table in the center of the Green Room".
