Why does the bald eagle represent freedom?

You are thinking of the Ike dollar joke- the dollar honoring Eisenhower, the General and President.- the Eagle is in a sit-down like flight posture over the Moon. the joke was the Eagle s--- the Moon- or, as the patriotic lyricist might have it- God shed his WASTE on Thee! Popular during the seventies. the Eagle design was borrowed from the Apollo Xi moon-capsule official patch.- the first manned moon landing in l969.