Earnings-related pensions were introduced in 1966,[4] while under a June 1969 law the Housing Bank offered loans for improving old dwellings.

[5] After his retirement from politics, Borten continued to speak out on issues such as nuclear disarmament, clandestine surveillance, and the controversy on Norway's relationship to the European Union.

His down-to-earth nature had been strongly underlined in 1969, when newspaper Dagbladet interviewed him at his farm while he was prime minister.

He did the interview wearing nothing but a pair of shoes, a hat and trunks, only days before Queen Elizabeth II was invited to the same farm on a state visit to Norway.

Another popular story was when Borten's Defence Minister, Otto Grieg Tidemand, invited him and others to a private dinner.