Every student of the period should doff his helmet to the author for an exemplary battlefield performance.

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And he dislikes the hustings: it was said that he preferred to wear a hat during his presidential campaigning so that he could doff it to the voters rather than shake their hands.

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He will leave the force after more than 44 years, more than 12 of them as the longest-serving chief in department history, with a reputation as a steady strategist, a cop's cop and a loyal defender of the agency with enough charisma to doff his hat at protesters during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Times Square.

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