Anyway, I think this will be the case, specifically, because of the administrative experience needed, a certain amount of diplomatic knowledge and, to be perfectly honest, knowing how to deal with major donors are going to have to be in place before the successor is named. Whoever it is is stepping into a quagmire of hornets nests and it going to have to have intestinal fortitude that would give the rest of us heartburn.
You also said:
"And, don't forget, this is a red hat in six years. Chaput is about the right age for that."