Jimmy Stewart, late night TV and a dog named Beau

We wouldn't see this on late night talk shows these days with the tendency to steer everything toward "cool" or the prized commodity of edginess. The late night hosts these days will only allow the guest to be mildly serious for a moment only to get back onto the track of FUNNY ALL THE TIME! as soon as possible. That's why I loved Johnny Carson. Like a great dancer he'd allow the guest to lead us to whatever emotional experience he had in mind and he would graciously follow. I still can't get this one appearance by Jimmy Stewart out of my head and evidently neither can the rest of America. I feel so lucky to have seen this when it happened. If you saw it you were witness to a great moment in television because there wasn't a dry eye in the house.