Panama Canal Not in Nicaragua

The French were selling land, they didn't have the right to sell because under their agreement with Colombia, that land was supposed to revert to Colombian control and all of the equipment pretty soon. Obviously the United States did not care about this. The US does try to make a deal with Bogota. They're like, what if we give you 10 million of the 40 million that we're gonna give to the French and a quarter of a million dollars a year in rent? So we send this offer back to Bogota and there's no response for what Teddy Roosevelt considers to be an unacceptable length of time. And angry, Teddy gets racist at a staff meeting, yelling, this is like so