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Freeman's newspaper editorials and daily radio broadcasts made him one of the most influential Virginians of his day, his analysis of [[World War I]] and [[World War II]] military campaigns bringing him recognition throughout the country, especially in military circles. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] thanked him for suggesting the use of the term "liberation," rather than "invasion," of Europe.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Virginians: Douglas Southall Freeman, Washington, and Lee |url=http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1948/1101481018_400.jpg |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |location=New York |date=1948-10-18 |access-date=2014-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111014234/http://dosomefink.com/phpbb2/index.php?topic=2453.0%3Bwap2 |archive-date=November 11, 2014 |author=Unknown |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref>
Military commanders such as Admiral [[Chester W. Nimitz]] and Generals [[George C. Marshall]], [[Douglas MacArthur]], and [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] sought his friendship and advice. Eisenhower said Freeman first convinced him to think seriously about running for the presidency.<ref name="mullen">{{cite web|last=Mullen|first=Richard|title=America's Greatest Biographer: Douglas Southall Freeman |publisher=Contemporary Review (Resource Library)|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1647_282/ai_100605231|access-date=November 4, 2011}}</ref> In 1958, Freeman was posthumously awarded his second [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his
[[Eric Foner]] is more critical of Freeman, whose biography of Lee, Foner calls a "[[hagiography]]," criticizing its lack of nuance and the limited attention paid to Lee's relationship to slavery.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Foner|first1=Eric|title=The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/books/review/eric-foner-robert-e-lee.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 28, 2017|access-date=September 18, 2017}}</ref>
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