John Kornblum, senior US diplomat in Berlin at the time of Reagan's speech, and US Ambassador to Germany from 1997 to 2001, said " wasn't really elevated to its current status until 1989, after the wall came down."
John Kornblum, hochrangiger US-Diplomat in Berlin zur Zeit von Reagans Rede, und US-Botschafter in Deutschland von 1997 bis 2001, sagte: “ wasn’t really elevated to its current status until 1989, after the wall came down” (deutsch: „Die Rede hatte bis zum Mauerfall 1989 nicht ansatzweise ihr heutiges Ansehen“).